Finland Post Standardizes on BEA

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Wednesday, August 25, 2004; 12:00 AM

HELSINKI, Finland—August 25, 2004— BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, today announced that Finland Post will standardize its electronic services development on BEA WebLogic Platform™ 8.1. With the unified BEA platform, Finland Post can offer its partners and customers advanced Internet services designed to help reduce the complexity and costs of portal administration, development, and integration.

Finland Post currently runs several customized portals which require an extensive amount of specified expert knowledge. During the initial rollout of the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, Finland Post plans to utilize BEA WebLogic Portal™ 8.1, running on the Intel platform, to build a partner portal for sub post offices. The company also plans to build online shopping services and external interfaces to the portal for partners. In addition, Finland Post plans to build customer reporting solutions in order to improve customer relations and supply chain management.

"BEA offered us a technology platform that is designed to map to and adapt to our changing business requirements. The new portal services and solutions can help us meet today's ever-increasing business challenges. The utilization of Internet services and external interfaces are becoming more and more important to our customers and partners," says Jukka Tiainen, Director, Finland Post.

 "BEA's objective is to help companies become service-driven enterprises with increased technological responsiveness, adaptability and productivity. BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 can provide a seamless infrastructure for both integration specialists and application developers. It offers Finland Post a single, unified, easy-to-use platform for application development, integration, deployment, and management," says Oula Maijala, Country Manager, BEA Finland.

About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) 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® and Tuxedo® 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 www.bea.com.

About Finland Post
As the leading company providing messaging and logistics services in Finland and in selected markets in the Baltic Rim, Finland Post is seeking the most vigorous growth in corporate logistics and electronic messaging, and through well managed internationalisation. It aims to develop its business towards integrated information and material flows management. Established in 1638, Finland Post has operated as a limited liability company since 1994, initially as part of the postal and telecommunication group. Since the de-merger of the postal and telecommunications group in 1998, Finland Post has been an independent, state-owned group. Finland Post became a public limited company, Finland Post Corporation, in 2001.

Contact Information Karesha McGee BEA SYSTEMS, INC. +1-408-570-8288 karesha.mcgee@bea.com