BEA Systems on Wednesday said it purchased privately held company Flashline to gain software for managing service-oriented architecture projects.
BEA Systems is eyeing off further acquisitions as uptake of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) products slowly expands in the Asia-Pacific region.
BEA Systems is looking to new products to stimulate licence revenue and allay concerns about the company, according to its CEO Alfred Chuang.
Oracle's acquisition of BEA will boost the latter's presence in Asia Pacific, as well as strengthening Oracle's foothold in the telecommunications space, but there will be no serious ramifications on the local market, according to analysts.
Oracle plans to acquire middleware maker BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion in cash, the company announced on Wednesday. The move means Oracle will leapfrog IBM as the number one middleware player.
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Experts say the time has come for SOA design approaches, which revamp business processes and could change the economics of delivering software.
Creating new applications from existing applications enables new functionality to be addressed quickly and at lower cost than traditional coding methods.
Imagine a world where most software licenses are fee-free. Your careers, your IT strategies, and your vendor relationships would be utterly transformed. Could this come to pass?
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for a few years, then you should know by now that the IT industry is in the throes of an integration revolution.
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