[announce] Bowstreet and BEA announce new, joint product

[Ann Kelly <akelly@bowstreet.com>]

Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal Allows Line of Business Managers
to Mass-Produce and Mass-Customize Portals

Joint solution for harnessing the power of BEA WebLogic Portal and Bowstreet
Business Web Factory to increase return on investments


PORTSMOUTH, N.H. and SAN JOSE, Calif.,  Oct. 22, 2001 - Bowstreet
(www.bowstreet.com) and BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) today announced a
new product called the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal, designed
to automate the mass production of portal applications across the
enterprise. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will enable
business users to automate the construction and management of portal
applications and cascading portals across a network of employees, partners
or customers. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal, available later
this year, will work in tandem with BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0, announced
separately today.

The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will let companies create
portals in a matter of days, allowing customers to slash maintenance and
customization costs, and reap significant returns on their application
development investments. In order to scale these portals across the
Internet, Bowstreet will leverage the strength of the BEA WebLogic Portal's
foundation, administration, personalization and integration services. The
Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will automate these and other
services to simplify the development, deployment and multi-team
administration of portal applications.

For example, a global automobile manufacturer can use the BEA WebLogic
Portal to create a master portal consisting of all the content and services
employees, partners and customers will need to access. The Bowstreet Factory
for BEA WebLogic Portal would then allow business managers throughout the
company to instruct the master portal to create cascading portals for
thousands of dealers or customers in a matter of days. Similarly, these
dealers and customers will be able to delegate the creation and
mass-customization of sub-portals for their customers.  

"The need to create families of web applications and to unify those
applications across the enterprise is driving the move to Generation 3
Portals. These new Gen 3 solutions require a robust application architecture
and the automated creation and management of cascading portals that provide
for complex process integration and full web services support," said Gene
Phifer, vice president and research director, Gartner, Inc.
 
Built on the same patent-pending, parametric-automation technology found in
Bowstreet's Business Web Factory, the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic
Portal will be comprised of a set of wizards and tools, as well as a
run-time component for mass-producing and mass-customizing portal
applications. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will act as a
"portal factory" to create unique, just-in-time composite web applications
based on individual, varying business scenarios or market needs.  

With the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal solution:
*  Non-technical business managers will be able to create, manage and
customize families of portals. They can accomplish this through a simple
point-and-click wizard, helping companies save on development time and
resources.
*  Companies will be able to distribute, manage, aggregate and syndicate
portals across departments, and partners' and customers' web sites. 
*  Companies will be able to automate the creation of new portals based on
the user's context - the device, the user class, access rights and more.
*  Information technology professionals will be able to reduce the time and
effort required to add functionality, support new variations, and manage
changes across deployed cascading portal applications.

"The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will allow customers to
create thousands of portal applications, constantly change or update them,
and cascade those portals to networks of employees, partners or customers,"
said Pat O'Haren, senior director of marketing, BEA Application Components
Division. "BEA WebLogic Portal provides the underlying portal foundation,
personalization, integration and e-business infrastructure software so
families of portals can scale across the web." 

"We view BEA WebLogic Portal as an extremely powerful platform upon which
portal applications can run," said Rose O'Donnell, vice president of
engineering, Bowstreet.  "We can augment BEA's solution with automation,
mass-production and mass-customization of portals, enabling modifications as
business conditions change in only days versus weeks or months."

About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is one of the world's leading e-business
infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around
the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its
WebLogic(R) brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses
built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) are
reliable, highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to market
quickly. BEA's e-business platform is the de facto standard for more than
2,100 systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and
application service providers (ASPs) to provide complete solutions that
fast-track and future-proof e-businesses for high growth and profitability.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 93 offices in 34 countries and is
on the Web at www.bea.com.

About Bowstreet
Bowstreet, a recognized leader in web services, enables businesses to form
dynamic, distributed networks called "business webs" that leverage the
strengths of the entire value chain while providing rich, streamlined web
experiences for employees, partners and customers. The Bowstreet(TM)
Business Web Factory automates the creation, assembly and maintenance of
families of composite web applications, dramatically increasing programmer
productivity. Available options harness the power of the Business Web
Factory with leading application, portal and integration platforms. More
information may be found at www.bowstreet.com or by calling 603-559-1900.


Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including
the statements regarding the implementation, benefits and details of the
relationship between BEA and Bowstreet; the availability, features and
benefits of BEA's and Bowstreet's products, particularly the Bowstreet
Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal; and the expected availability later this
year of the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal. Actual results could
differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements.
Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially
include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties related
to the ongoing development and functionality of BEA's and Bowstreet's
products, particularly the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal;
changes in the marketplace for enterprise-wide software solutions, portal
applications and tools and management solutions therefore, including the
introduction of products and technologies that compete with BEA's and
Bowstreet's products; and any software errors in BEA's or Bowstreet's
products.  Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in
BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2001 as filed with the SEC and
subsequent reports filed thereafter from time-to-time with the SEC.  The
forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date
hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor
the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected
in such statements.

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Bowstreet is a trademark of Bowstreet, Inc. 

BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Server,
BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic
Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA
WebLogic Portal, BEA Campaign Manager for WebLogic, BEA WebLogic E-Business
Platform, and How Business Becomes E-Business are trademarks of BEA Systems,
Inc.

All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered
trademarks of their respective companies or owners. 

Contact:	

Ann Kelly					
Bowstreet
603-559-1557
akelly@bowstreet.com

Mary Erickson			
BEA Systems
605-325-3286
mary.erickson@bea.com
	

Tim Munroe 					 
Beaupre & Co. Public Relations Inc. 		
603-559-5820					
tmunroe@beaupre.com