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Telecom Industry Veteran Joins BEA to Help Network Operators Create and

Deploy Converged Communications Services Through the Adoption of Telecom

SOA

Core News Facts

1. BEA plans to strengthen its leadership within the telecommunications

market by appointing Eric Burger as Deputy CTO for telecom, to help lead

BEA's efforts to drive SOA adoption in the telecom market.

2. The appointment of this prominent telecom visionary signifies BEA's

ongoing commitment to continue to strengthen its position as a telecom SOA

solutions provider.

    ORLANDO, Fla., March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CTIA Wireless 2007 --
 BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise and communications
 infrastructure software, today announced the appointment of Eric Burger as
 Deputy Chief Technology Officer, overseeing BEA's overall technology
 strategies and standards participation in the telecommunications industry.
 In this role, Burger will help lead BEA's efforts to drive SOA adoption in
 telecom networks.
     "The appointment of Eric Burger signifies BEA's ongoing commitment to
 continuing to strengthen its position in the telecom industry and helping
 to establishing BEA as a dominant provider of telecom SOA solutions to
 network operators and service providers," said Rob Levy, Executive Vice
 President and Chief Technology Officer, BEA Systems. "Eric brings a wealth
 of telecom industry leadership, knowledge and expertise to BEA, which can
 help to accelerate the adoption of BEA's telecom products and solutions."
     "I am looking forward to evangelizing BEA's telecom SOA solutions
 leveraging the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform and AquaLogic product
 families," said Burger. "Telecom SOA is a critical 'missing link' to
 integrate next-generation networks, such as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
 and service delivery platforms (SDP) with existing OSS/BSS and IT systems.
 Telecom SOA can help operators and service providers accelerate service
 creation, delivery and monetization, using a very cost-effective services
 layer architecture."
     Prior to joining BEA Systems, Burger was CTO for Cantata Technology,
 where he oversaw corporate research, cross-product architecture,
 intellectual property generation and standards initiatives for the company.
 Among his ten issued U.S. patents and numerous pending patents, Burger's
 most notable invention to date is widely considered to be his
 SIP-Controlled Multifunction Media Server which is designed to embody the
 applications and services infrastructure design model and to bring the web
 development model to real- time, interactive applications, integral to the
 telecommunications space.
     Additionally, Burger presently serves on the Board of Directors of the
 SIP Forum and IMS Forum. He contributes to and holds leadership positions
 in several standards bodies, has written most of the SIP media RFC's in the
 IETF, and has contributed to VoiceXML and CCXML in the W3C. Burger has
 taught at George Mason University and George Washington University and
 holds degrees from MIT, Catholic University of Leuven and Illinois
 Institute of Technology.
     About BEA Systems, Inc.
     BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:   BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise and
 communications infrastructure software. BEA's SOA 360 platform is designed
 to be the industry's most unified SOA platform for business transformation
 and optimization, by, among other things, helping to improve cost
 structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is
 enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy(TM) can be found at
 bea.com.
     Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
     Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking,
 including the statements regarding BEA's strengthening its leadership
 position as a telecom SOA solutions provider, its ability to further enable
 customers and the features and benefits of BEA's products. 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 changes in the
 technology, standards or marketplace for enterprise information integration
 software; the timing of a recovery from any economic and IT industry
 downturn; any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development
 BEA's solutions; and any software errors related to BEA's solutions.
 Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q
 for the quarter ended July 31, 2006 as filed with the SEC and subsequent
 reports filed thereafter by BEA 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.
     BEA, BEA AquaLogic, BEA eLink, BEA WebLogic, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA
 WebLogic Server, Connectera, Compoze Software, Jolt, JoltBeans, JRockit,
 SteelThread, Think Liquid, Top End, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered
 trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Blended Application Development, BEA
 Blended Development Model, BEA Blended Strategy, BEA Builder, BEA Guardian,
 BEA Manager, BEA MessageQ, BEA microService Architecture, BEA SOA 360, BEA
 Workshop, BEA WorkSpace SOA 360, Signature Editor, Signature Engine,
 Signature Patterns, Support Patterns, Arch2Arch, Arch2Arch Advisor,
 Dev2Dev, Dev2Dev Dispatch, Exec2Exec, Exec2Exec Voice, IT2IT, IT2IT
 Insight, Business LiquidITy, and Liquid Thinker are trademarks of BEA
 Systems, Inc. BEA Mission Critical Support, BEA Mission Critical Support
 Continuum, BEA SOA Self Assessment, and Fluid Framework are service marks
 of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject
 of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. All other
 trademarks are the property of their respective companies.
 
 

SOURCE BEA Systems, Inc.