Gartner's latest market share data shows BEA among top three vendors in three market segments

The ranking is based on license revenue market share.

Gartner's "Market Share: AIM and Portal Software, Worldwide, 2004, Preliminary" report shows BEA at 21.7 per cent worldwide share for application servers in 2004; 11.6 per cent worldwide share for application platform suites; 8.9 per cent worldwide share for portal products; and 7.2 per cent worldwide share in the US$ 6.7 billion application integration and middleware market.

"This market share report reinforces BEA's position as a leading independent middleware provider and the success of BEA's flagship WebLogic product line, as a diversified infrastructure platform for building and deploying enterprise applications," said Diyaa Zebian, General Manager, Middle East & Egypt, eSolutions BEA.

"The BEA WebLogic Communications Platform is built around the WebLogic Application Server, which has been a basic building block of enterprise software. BEA was one of the early pioneers of the application server market and one of the first to deliver an integrated application platform. BEA is committed towards creating an environment where independent service-oriented architectures are designed to handle even the most complex business operations, application or service, that is required to efficiently run customers' businesses," added Zebian.

BEA also announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned BEA in the leaders' quadrants of the "Magic Quadrant for Integration Backbone Software, 1H05," the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q05," and the "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products 2005."

Gartner, Inc. assesses vendors on their vision and ability to execute. The research firm defines "Leaders" as vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.