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November 03, 2005 | Comments: (0)
BEA makes Java technology acquisition
BEA Systems on Thursday announced its acquisition of SolarMetric, an an object persistence company whose object persistence engine, Kodo, supports EJB 3.0 and Java Data Objects programming models.
The acquisition is intended to boost developer productivity and simplify Java development, according to Marge Breya, BEA senior vice president. SolarMetric enables developers to take advantage of XML and data stores without having to know where the data is stored, she said during a conference call on Thursday morning.
"The combination between BEA and SolarmMetric I think is pretty straightforward," Breya said. BEA provides Java technologies and customer support and SolarMetric's technology helps developers be more database- and data store-agnostic.
SolarMetric technology is planned for inclusion of the next major release of the BEA WebLogic 9.0 Server application server next year, BEA officials said. That release may be called WebLogic Server 9.5, according to BEA. Kodo also will be sold separately and supported in the company's WebLogic Workshop developer tool
"My feeling is that this is a part of our overall acquisition strategy that will help us leapfrog the competition," said Bill Roth, vice president of BEA's Workshop products group. Kodo provides an object persisence engine that offers developers better productivity in dealing with databases, Roth said. Persistence enables objects to be stored in memory for use later.
The acqusition was the company's fifth in recent months. Previously, the company has acquired portal vendor Plumtree Software; M7, which makes Eclipse-based development tools; RFID technology provider Connectera and collaboration software vendor Compoz.
BEA did not reveal the cost of the SolarMetric acquisition but the company still has $1.6 billion in the bank, Breya said.
Posted by Paul Krill on November 3, 2005 08:54 AM
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