TechWeb - Here's an update on Open Service Oriented Architecture, or OSOA, which comprises experts from rivals BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, SAP and others.

The Motley Fool - While reviewing Adobe's (Nasdaq: ADBE - News) latest quarter, I was surprised to find that 30% of the software companies in my portfolio no longer exist. We mostly have Oracle to thank for absorbing the likes of PeopleSoft and Siebel Systems; its buying spree may not be finished yet, since it's rumored that Larry Ellison's software juggernaut has previously shown interest in BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS - News). Symantec (NYSE: SYMC - News) recently snapped up Veritas, while Adobe itself just completed its acquisition of Macromedia. ...

The Motley Fool - With a leading position and major customers, being an enterprise software maker can mean having a cash cow. Just look at BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS - News), which recently announced its first-quarter results. But be warned: there's a big threat out there, and it wears a red hat.

InfoWorld - SAN FRANCISCO -- BEA Systems executives at the JavaOne conference sought to dispel what they described as marketplace misconceptions, including the notions that Java is being displaced, that middleware is obsolete, and that innovation and commercial software are both dead.

InfoWorld - BEA Systems at JavaOne will expand beyond its traditional, bread-and-butter Java base, demonstrating PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) running on the WebLogic Server application server