es, through our direct sales, services and technical support organizations, complemented by indirect sales channels; the statement regarding our intent to expand our relationships with third parties and strategic partners to increase the market awareness, demand and acceptance of BEA and our solutions; the statement regarding our belief that our services organization plays an important role in facilitating initial license sales and enabling customers to successfully architect, design, develop, deploy and manage systems and applications; the statement regarding our marketing efforts directed at broadening the demand for BEA products and solutions by increasing awareness of the benefits of using our products to build mission-critical distributed and Web-based applications; the statement regarding our marketing efforts aimed at supporting our worldwide direct and indirect sales channels; the statement regarding our need to differentiate our products from Microsoft’s; the statement regarding our belief that a significant level of research and development is required to remain competitive and that we expect to continue to commit substantial resources to product development and engineering in future periods; that statement that our success depends upon our proprietary technology; the statement regarding our belief that backlog, as of any particular date, is not a reliable indicator of future performance; [/TABLE]