BEA's WebLogic Server to be embedded in the next version of BroadVision's One-to-One platform.
BroadVision and e-business infrastructure software provider BEA Systems announced that BEA's WebLogic Server will be embedded in the next version of BroadVision's e-commerce platform.
BroadVision's One-to-One Enterprise 6.0, due in the first quarter next year, will support Java 2 Enterprise Edition, enabling it to support BEA WebLogic Server, as well as other vendors' application servers, such as IBM's WebSphere and Sun Microsystem's iPlanet. J2EE support includes support for Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Server Pages and servlets.
"Our strategic relationship with BEA is the most significant announcement we're making today," says Pehong Chen, chairman and CEO of BroadVision. "We have done our due diligence, we have made our choice and it doesn't require a recount."
And One-to-One Enterprise's support of J2EE should squelch any complaints that BroadVision isn't an open platform, says Chen. "There should be no more questions of whether we support standards."
Chen also notes that BroadVision doesn't care whether customers use its application server or third-party application servers. It will have no impact on company revenue, according to Chen, because the company does not charge separately for its app server. "We will charge the same thing whether the customer uses our app server or someone else's," Chen says. "We don't really care because what we're selling is an entire ecosystem."
Alfred Chuang, president and COO of San Jose, Calif.-based BEA, says the partners are not competitors in the marketplace. Chuang says BroadVision has expertise selling into vertical markets and to end users while BEA sells horizontal components. "The marketplace has plenty of room to choose both these [platforms]," adds Chuang.
BroadVision will launch an early adopter's program for One-to-One Enterprise 6.0 before the end of the year, Chen says. The update will be generally available in the first quarter.
