SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. , the world's leading application infrastructure software company, today announced that it has promoted Tom Ashburn to Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, a new organization responsible for all of BEA's sales, services and marketing operations.
"For the past year, our focus has been on bringing BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) 8.1 to market. Building on our early successes, we are now combining sales, services and marketing to create an even more focused and coordinated set of capabilities to better serve our customers. This is a natural step in BEA's evolution," said Alfred Chuang, BEA's founder, chairman and CEO. "By creating an office of Worldwide Field Operations, we believe will be better able to integrate our go-to-market strategy among our direct sales, marketing, and services organizations, our resellers and our partners. Tom has done an outstanding job leading our worldwide services organization, and I look forward to working with him in his new role. Innovation is the core of BEA's success, and by coordinating our worldwide field operations under Tom's leadership, I will be turning more of my focus to innovation and the next stages of our product strategy."
Mr. Ashburn joined BEA in February 2002 as President of BEA's Worldwide Services Division. Prior to joining BEA, Mr. Ashburn had a 33-year career at Hewlett-Packard, where he most recently served as vice president and general manager of HP Services.
"BEA has a wealth of resources and capabilities to offer our customers, including an extensive network of partners, and we want to better coordinate our efforts to bring all of those capabilities to bear in order to help make our customers successful," said Mr. Ashburn.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation that allows thousands of companies to benefit from service-oriented architectures. With more than 15,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 71 offices in 34 countries and is on the Web at http://www.bea.com/.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including statements regarding our ability to better integrate our go-to-market strategy; future operations; and future events. Statements that include the use of terminology such as "may," "will," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "estimates," or "continue," or other comparable terminology, are forward-looking statements. BEA's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties BEA faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: the timing of our resellers' and partners' future investments in resources to facilitate our go-to-market strategy; quarterly fluctuation in customer spending due to economic, geopolitical, competitive and other factors; dependence on growth of the markets for BEA's products; the rate of any recovery in information technology spending by our customer base; dependence on new product introductions and enhancements; the introduction by competitors of new products and pricing strategies; market acceptance of BEA's products and enhancements such as our recently introduced BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1; length of BEA's sales cycle; dependence on acceptance of BEA's products by channel partners; dependence on success of BEA's channel partners; integration of past and future acquisitions; dependence on hiring key personnel; rapid technological change; potential software defects (particularly with regard to newly introduced products); and significant leverage and debt service requirements. Readers should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors That May Impact Future Operating Results" on pages 24 through 37 of BEA's Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2004, as well as similar disclosures in subsequent BEA SEC filings. The forward-looking statements and risks stated in this press release are based on information available to BEA today. BEA assumes no obligation to update them.
NOTE: BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic JRockit, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, BEA eLink, and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.
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"For the past year, our focus has been on bringing BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) 8.1 to market. Building on our early successes, we are now combining sales, services and marketing to create an even more focused and coordinated set of capabilities to better serve our customers. This is a natural step in BEA's evolution," said Alfred Chuang, BEA's founder, chairman and CEO. "By creating an office of Worldwide Field Operations, we believe will be better able to integrate our go-to-market strategy among our direct sales, marketing, and services organizations, our resellers and our partners. Tom has done an outstanding job leading our worldwide services organization, and I look forward to working with him in his new role. Innovation is the core of BEA's success, and by coordinating our worldwide field operations under Tom's leadership, I will be turning more of my focus to innovation and the next stages of our product strategy."
Mr. Ashburn joined BEA in February 2002 as President of BEA's Worldwide Services Division. Prior to joining BEA, Mr. Ashburn had a 33-year career at Hewlett-Packard, where he most recently served as vice president and general manager of HP Services.
"BEA has a wealth of resources and capabilities to offer our customers, including an extensive network of partners, and we want to better coordinate our efforts to bring all of those capabilities to bear in order to help make our customers successful," said Mr. Ashburn.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation that allows thousands of companies to benefit from service-oriented architectures. With more than 15,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 71 offices in 34 countries and is on the Web at http://www.bea.com/.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including statements regarding our ability to better integrate our go-to-market strategy; future operations; and future events. Statements that include the use of terminology such as "may," "will," "expects," "plans," "anticipates," "estimates," or "continue," or other comparable terminology, are forward-looking statements. BEA's actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties BEA faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: the timing of our resellers' and partners' future investments in resources to facilitate our go-to-market strategy; quarterly fluctuation in customer spending due to economic, geopolitical, competitive and other factors; dependence on growth of the markets for BEA's products; the rate of any recovery in information technology spending by our customer base; dependence on new product introductions and enhancements; the introduction by competitors of new products and pricing strategies; market acceptance of BEA's products and enhancements such as our recently introduced BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1; length of BEA's sales cycle; dependence on acceptance of BEA's products by channel partners; dependence on success of BEA's channel partners; integration of past and future acquisitions; dependence on hiring key personnel; rapid technological change; potential software defects (particularly with regard to newly introduced products); and significant leverage and debt service requirements. Readers should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors That May Impact Future Operating Results" on pages 24 through 37 of BEA's Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2004, as well as similar disclosures in subsequent BEA SEC filings. The forward-looking statements and risks stated in this press release are based on information available to BEA today. BEA assumes no obligation to update them.
NOTE: BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic JRockit, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, BEA eLink, and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.
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