[announce] OASIS Member News: BEA Systems to Host 8th Annual eWorldTechnology Conference (March 2-5, 2003)

[Diana Reid <dianar@bea.com>]

*OASIS members receive $100 off registration by entering code "dm-mtstnc" when you register online at  http://www.bea.com/events/eworld/2003/index.shtml!  Keynote speakers at BEA eWorld will include BEA Chief Architect, Adam Bosworth; Chief Technology Officer, Scott Dietzen, and Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alfred Chuang; as well as Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and other industry luminaries.


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Press release: http://www.bea.com/press/releases/2003/0129_eworld.shtml


BEA to Host 8th Annual eWorld Technology Conference March 2-5, 2003

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jan. 29, 2003 - BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, today announced that the industry's leading technology conference, BEA eWorld 2003, is scheduled for March 2-5, 2003, in Orlando, Fla.  The conference, featuring "Converge" as its theme, is scheduled to highlight the convergence of building, integrating and extending software applications into a single, powerful framework. BEA eWorld 2003 presents experienced and new developers, end-users and IT executives the opportunity to examine convergence from a variety of perspectives through keynotes, tailored breakout sessions and informal events.

Conference attendees can also get a firsthand look at new versions of the BEA WebLogicŪ product line, exchange ideas with BEA customers and developers, and learn directly from partners about their work to further extend the BEA portfolio of products. The conference offers access to BEA technologists and executives, industry experts, customers, partners and developers with scheduled sessions such as "TechTalk Night", featuring informal discussions and book signings, as well as the BEA dev2dev "Hands-On Lab," where attendees can have the opportunity to use new BEA technologies. In addition, BEA eWorld 2003 is slated to feature a variety of breakout sessions led by key technologists on a diversity of software issues, including:

Process Integration 
Web Services Solutions: Data & Application Integration 
Integrated Portals 
Integrated Development Strategies 
Performance, Scalability & Security 
Application Servers 
Standards: Web Services & J2EE 
Deployment, Management & Administration 
Extending the BEA Platform 

BEA eWorld is co-sponsored this year by a roster of industry leaders, including Diamond-level sponsors HP and Intel. Other important sponsors include Accenture, Borland, Documentum, Hyperion, Siebel Systems and Sun Microsystems at the Platinum level, and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Dirig Software, NEON Systems and Yahoo!, at the Gold level. Silver sponsors include Attachmate, ComponentSource, FileNet, Interwoven, Macromedia, Mercator, Mercury Interactive, Panacya, Rational, RoundArch, RSA Security and ZettaWorks. Media sponsors are Fawcette Technical Publications, Sams Publishing and SYS-CON Media. For additional conference and registration information, visit the BEA website at: http://www.bea.com/events/eworld/2003/index.shtml.

About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation for 13,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogicŪ brand are among the most trusted names in business.

Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 81 offices in 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.