BEA News and Rumors

BEA announces OS-less installation, and is rumored to be an acquisition target.

BEA announced recently (http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201311330&queryText=bea) that it will offer WebLogic Server Virtual Edition (http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/editors/archive/2007/08/announcement_we.html), a version of WebLogic that does not require an OS. Instead, it will run within a Java VM on top of VMWare's hypervisor.

A rumor throughout the industry is that BEA is quickly becoming an acquisition target, at a time that BEA's sales are slipping. Supposedly, open-source application servers such as JBoss and Glassfish are taking a bite out overall commercial application server sales. Couple this with IBM's WebSphere growth since 2004, at BEA's expense, and BEA's future may be in question. Perhaps it's time for WebLogic to jump into the open-source game itself?

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