Latest Market Share Data Shows BEA in Top Three Ranking for Overall Application Integration and Middleware and Portal Market, and Three Market Segments
BEA Positioned in Leaders Quadrants in Integration Backbone Software, Enterprise Application Servers and Horizontal Portal Products Research
SAN JOSE, Calif. May 26, 2005 BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) today announced Gartner, Inc. has positioned BEA as one of the top three vendors in three different markets for 2004 application servers, portal products and application platform suites as well as the overall AIM (application, integration and middleware) and portal market. The ranking is based on license revenue market share.
Gartner's Market Share: AIM and Portal Software, Worldwide, 2004, Preliminary* report shows BEA at 21.7 percent worldwide share for application servers in 2004; 11.6 percent worldwide share for application platform suites; 8.9 percent worldwide share for portal products; and 7.2 percent worldwide share in the more than $6.7 billion application integration and middleware market.
"We believe the market share results confirm BEA's position as a leading independent middleware provider and the success of BEA's flagship WebLogic(tm) product line as a diversified infrastructure platform for building and deploying enterprise applications, said Alfred Chuang, chairman and chief executive officer, BEA Systems, Inc. "BEA was one of the early pioneers of the application server market and one of the first to deliver an integrated application platform. Unlike other vendors that pursue an integrated software stack strategy, BEA is driving toward the future of independent service-oriented architectures that designed to handle almost any business process, application or service needed to run customers' businesses.
BEA also announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned BEA in the leaders quadrants of the Magic Quadrant for Integration Backbone Software, 1H05, the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q05, and the Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products 2005. *
Gartner, Inc. assesses vendors on their vision and ability to execute. The research firm defines "Leaders" as vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic and Tuxedo brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 76 offices in 36 countries. More information on BEA products and services is available at www.bea.com.
About the Magic Quadrants
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted April 15, 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrants are a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. They depict Gartners analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrants, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the Leaders quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
* Magic Quadrant for Integration Backbone Software, 1H05; Roy W. Schulte, Jess Thompson, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jim Sinur, L. Frank Kenney, Michele Cantara, Joanne M. Correia, Paolo Malinverno, Benoit J. Lheureux; April 15, 2005. Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q05; Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima; April 15, 2005. Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products awaiting complete reference info.
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