Companies to align offerings for agile e-business infrastructure through
Edge Side Includes (ESI)
San Jose, CA and Cambridge, MA - September 28, 2001 - BEA Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: BEAS), one of the world`s leading e-business infrastructure
software companies, and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the
leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and
software, today announced a relationship designed to help
e-businesses reliably deliver Web-based applications while minimizing their
infrastructure requirements.
The BEA WebLogic* E-Business Platform, a single solution for enterprise and
e-business applications that require commerce, portal, integration and Web
Services, will support the Edge Side Includes (ESI) mark-up language and the
Java-based custom tag library for ESI (JESI). As a result, BEA WebLogic
will be able to interoperate with services such as Akamai`s EdgeSuiteSM
service to simplify the development and deployment of dynamic e-business
applications.
Web-enabled enterprises are increasingly evolving beyond the display of
static Web pages to include dynamically generated content, such as product
catalogs, auctions, exchanges, stock quotes, and personalized content. The
creation of this dynamic content places significant strain on traditional
Web site architectures, and hinders performance - which means that pages
download more slowly, the user experience is worsened, and impatient
customers are potentially lost. By incorporating ESI functionality, BEA
WebLogic will give users the flexibility and benefits of distributing the
assembly of dynamic content and applications to Akamai`s globally
distributed network of nearly 12,000 servers at the Internet`s edge -
optimally located near end-users.
"The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform is a comprehensive solution for
creating dynamic
e-business applications that can be delivered with increased speed,
performance, and reliability via Akamai`s EdgeSuite service," said Mike
Ruffolo, executive vice president, Akamai. "We`re excited to work with
industry leaders such as BEA to accelerate the adoption of ESI and exploit
the performance and cost-saving benefits of edge computing."
"BEA has always been a strong, early supporter of emerging standards, and
we`re pleased to work with Akamai in support of ESI and JESI for the
cost-efficient deployment of business-critical applications, while complying
with open Java-based standards," said Scott Dietzen, CTO, BEA E-Commerce
Server Division. "Furthermore, we believe that supporting emerging
standards-based edge-side applications assembly, such as JESI, with BEA
WebLogic Server* is a natural extension to the high-performance content
caching already available in WebLogic Server. Using Akamai`s global
network, customers can take advantage of in-place infrastructure while
delivering top performance of highly dynamic content and applications."
Recently published as a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Note, ESI is an open
mark-up language and proposed standard created to define Web page fragments,
such as stock quotes and catalog prices, for dynamic aggregation, assembly
and delivery at the Internet`s edge - closer to end-users and bypassing the
Internet`s inherent bottlenecks. ESI enables companies to develop Web
applications once, then choose at deployment time where the application
should be assembled - on the application server, the content management
system or the content delivery network, thus reducing complexity,
development time and deployment costs. ESI for Java (JESI) is a Java-based
custom tag library that allows users to program code in Java and translate
it automatically into ESI. JESI has been accepted by the Java Community
Process as JSR 128.
The JESI custom tag library is available for free download from the BEA Web
site for its developer community at
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For additional information on ESI and JESI, please visit www.esi.org.
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
WebLogicŪ 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 Akamai
Akamai is the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure
services and software. These services and software enable companies to
reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web
infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability,
scalability and manageability. Akamai`s services give businesses a distinct
competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for
their customers. Akamai`s intelligent edge platform for content, streaming
media, and application delivery comprises more than 11,600 servers within
over 820 networks in 62 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Akamai provides services to companies worldwide. For
information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
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Contacts:
Mary Erickson
BEA Systems
408-570-8413
mary.erickson@bea.com
Felicia Spagnoli
Akamai Technologies
617-444-2525
spagnoli@akamai.com
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