SAN JOSE , Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) today announced the latest milestone in its long-standing alliance with HP, supporting the new HP Integrity BL870c server blade with BEA WebLogic Server 10. As part of an agreement with HP, BEA intends to work with HP to deliver benefits to customers, including:

    -- Reliability - BEA WebLogic Server is built for high reliability,
       availability, scale and performance.

    -- Flexibility - BEA is dedicated to making IT systems more manageable
       and flexible.  BEA WebLogic Server includes automation capabilities to
       easily deploy and manage applications with diagnostics services.

    -- Support - For reduced downtime support, BEA Guardian enables customers
       to leverage the industry's only preemptive support service paired with
       HP's Integrity blade.

The availability of the BEA WebLogic Server on HP's first 4-socket Integrity blade server allows customers to confidently run large business critical applications and align their technology with the needs of their business. This latest collaboration builds on the organizations' reputation to deliver customers a rock-solid foundation for mission-critical enterprise applications.

'BEA and HP have proven to be committed to excellence in delivering best-of-class application server technology,' said Guy Churchward, vice-president, WebLogic products, BEA Systems. 'We're focused on making IT systems more manageable and flexible and enabling our customers to integrate their operations in a more efficient and cost-effective way.'

BEA WebLogic Server and Web 2.0 services in combination with the HP Integrity BL870c automate capabilities to easily deploy applications and keep them up and running using diagnostics capabilities. The companies have a history of producing some of the best application server performance scores in the industry.

BEA WebLogic Server is built for high reliability, availability, scale and performance. The new HP Integrity server blade is focused on efficiently handling business-critical workloads. Creating solutions built on the HP BladeSystem and Integrity blades provides a platform that is modular and energy-efficient with the business-critical power and functionality of HP Integrity servers. Because the two products are highly complementary, running BEA's solutions in a bladed infrastructure such as the BL870c will allow customers to build an application-services environment that helps user rapidly adapt to changing business situations.

'Hosting BEA WebLogic Server on the HP Integrity BL870c server blades will help ensure customers are able to effectively address memory-intensive applications with more processing power for development workloads,' said Michelle Weiss, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. 'Customers can now simplify the development of Java applications at lower cost by taking advantage of the flexibility, scalability and reliability of Integrity with the modular infrastructure and energy efficiency of HP BladeSystem.'

    For more information about BEA WebLogic Server, please go to
    http://www.bea.com/wls

    For more information about HP Integrity BL870 server blade, please go to
    http://www.hp.com/go/integrityblade

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. Information about how BEA helps customers build a Liquid Enterprise(TM) that transforms their business can be found at bea.com.

SOURCE BEA Systems, Inc.