Computerworld: Q&A Part 2: BEA's Chuang on Competition, Linux and Open Source

[ Thanks to Matt for this link. ]

"At BEA Systems Inc.'s annual eWorld conference this week, CEO Alfred Chuang spoke with Computerworld about the application server market space, his company's competition, recent trends toward Linux and the open-source software movement...

"What Linux trends are you seeing with BEA software?

"Huge adoption curve climbing very fast for BEA over the last six to nine months. A lot of focus in the financial services marketplace, where there's a lot of experimentation and initial deployment going on with Linux on Intel. And I think the motivation in that arena is simplification and cost reduction, so they are looking to buy significantly less expensive hardware..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• LinuxPlanet: Extending Java with BEA WebLogic for Linux(Dec 21, 1999)
• PRNewswire: BEA Offers $50,000 in Prizes for First Linux Developer's Contest(Aug 10, 1999)
• InfoWorld: BEA makes a move on Linux development community(May 20, 1999)