BEA buys Plumtree to boost integration
BEA buys Plumtree to boost integration
Aug 23, 2005: BEA has bought Plumtree for USD$200 million in cash in a bid to provide customers with improved enterprise productivity by offering both collaborative and transactional portals across multiple platforms and application servers.
Alfred Chuang, the chairman and chief executive officer of BEA Systems, said that the portal is becoming the major point of integration in the enterprise.
"Customers will benefit from the powerful combination of BEA as the leader in portal application and service infrastructure, and Plumtree, as the leader in portal and collaboration software. The acquisition of the Plumtree portfolio will make BEA the leading provider of the most open, extensible and standards-based J2EE, .Net and Service-Oriented platform in the industry."
John Kunze, the Plumtree software chief executive officer, who will lead the transition with Mark Carges, the BEA chief technology officer and executive vice president., said that Plumtree's core competency is cross-platform enterprise connectivity and productivity.
"We give people a place to collaborate and a face to their enterprise business processes or composite services. BEA's 'Think liquid.' Vision is powerful and completely aligned with the longstanding culture and aspirations of our team. We're excited about becoming a part of the BEA team."
Overall, BEA believes that its users will benefit from the acquisition because the dual offering will combine Plumtree's ease of use and out-of-the-box functionality with the power and flexibility of the BEA WebLogic Platform.
Staff at BEA also said that customers will have access to both transactional and collaborative products and technologies from a single supplier and BEA will offer the only portal to span both J2EE and .Net, and to support both J2EE and .NET applications and portlets, to support multiple platforms, and to support multiple application servers.
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