Palm and BEA Partner to Mobilize Web Services in the Enterprise
(Milpitas, CA and San Jose, CA) - Palm Solutions Group, a pioneer in mobile and wireless Internet solutions and a provider of handheld computers; and BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application infrastructure software company, have announced a long-term, strategic relationship to bring Web services to Palm-branded handhelds.

Palm will develop tools and a device-side software suite to simplify development and deployment of mobile Web services to extend enterprise applications on Palm handhelds. It will work with BEA to integrate this solution with BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 and BEA WebLogic Workshop products as server-side controls. This will be the first WebLogic Workshop control developed for a handheld device.
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PeopleSoft Launches Application Integration Product Suite
(New Orleans) - PeopleSoft, Inc., has announced PeopleSoft AppConnect, a new product suite of preintegrated portal, integration, and warehouse solutions that reduces the complexities of integrating multivendor applications. PeopleSoft AppConnect utilizes Web services technology to simplify integration.

The product suite includes the Enterprise Portal, Integration Broker, and Enterprise Warehouse. Products communicate using Web services and legacy integration methodologies. Additionally, AppConnect is compatible with J2EE, and works with BEA WebLogic application servers.
www.peoplesoft.com

Evolution Hosting Offers WebLogic in Flagship Platform
(Boulder, CO) - Evolution Hosting, a provider of J2EE data center management, now supports WebLogic Server in its core offering. The Evolution Hosting Platform automatically configures application, database, and Web servers in a data center, alleviating common production issues that plague enterprise Java environments such as account setup, resource connectivity, security, and management of server properties. Evolution Hosting also offers managed application hosting for companies wishing to outsource their J2EE application management.
www.evolutionhosting.com

Alignment Software Releases AppAssure
(Superior, CO) - Alignment Software (formerly known as NPULSE Software), makers of next-generation performance management software for complex, distributed-application infrastructures, has announced the general availability of its AppAssure Application Performance Management Software. AppAssure delivers rapidly deployable, dynamic, tunable application monitoring to operations staff who are stretched to the limit by increasingly complex distributed applications.

Users have a real-time view from URL to SQL, and from the system level down to individual methods within an application. Users can selectively choose to monitor URL transactions, or manage granular data down to the method call within their applications. The depth of monitoring can be changed dynamically in response to system performance thresholds.
www.alignmentsoftware.com

German Air Force Signs Agreement with BEA Systems
(San Jose, CA) - BEA Systems, Inc., has signed an agreement with the German Air Force to develop standards-based application server technology from BEA for a military command and control system that could become a model for all NATO countries.

The Baltic Command and Control Information System (BALTCCIS) is being developed by the German Air Force as part of its bilateral cooperation with countries that might join NATO in the future. The system will provide a shared data pool and deliver the necessary information for critical command decisions about the deployment and allocation of shared resources.

Once complete, the system will be divided into two functional areas: Command and Control and Common Support. Command and Control will use BEA WebLogic Server as the platform for industry-standard Enterprise JavaBeans-based business logic, and a Microsoft SQL database server.
www.baltccis.net

Objectivity/DB Release 7.1 Delivers Enhanced Interoperability
(Mountain View, CA) - Objectivity, Inc., a provider of scalable high-performance databases for the management of complex data, has announced the general availability of Objectivity/DB Release 7.1.

Objectivity/DB Release 7.1 provides transparent interoperability for C++, .NET, Java, Smalltalk ,and SQL++/ODBC applications running on AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, LynxOS, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Tru64 UNIX, and Windows. The BEA-ready release adds container-managed persistence to its existing WebLogic-ready facilities.
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Ceon Elaborates on Successful Partnership with BEA
(Redwood City, CA) - Ceon Corp. has announced that it fully utilizes the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform in its service fulfillment solution. By incorporating BEA Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic Server, and BEA WebLogic Integration into Ceon Integration and Provisioning Suite (Ceon IPS 4.0), it delivers unprecedented speed to revenue and ROI to the communications services market.

Ceon IPS 4.0 activates new services, manages order workflow, and enables subscriber Web self-service. It offers customers competitive advantages by lowering operating expenses, generating revenue faster, and creating the flexibility to bundle multiple services for higher profitability.
www.ceon.com