BEA Rides Java Toward SOA

摘要

Bea systems has redefined itself several times in its short history. Originally set up to sell the Tuxedo transaction manager, the company made a deft acquisition of the WebLogic application server in 1998, which it rode like a rocket to overwhelming market dominance. BEA soon lost focus, however, and permitted archrival IBM's WebSphere to reclaim the lost ground. During the past few years, the two companies have seesawed back and forth for market leadership, with IBM getting the best of it due to BEA's ongoing indecision about how to position itself. The latter has variously touted itself as an e-commerce software vendor, a Java vendor, and a Web services tools purveyor.