Covalent Partners with BEA Systems

Covalent Technologies™, the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with BEA Systems, Inc. (www.bea.com), a provider in enterprise infrastructure software.

As a part of a blended approach to mixing and matching open source and commercial software, BEA Systems plans to offer blended BEA WebLogic® management and deployment technologies.

The technologies will be designed to provide automated management and production-level support for customers using Apache Tomcat. Instead of utilizing multiple management interfaces, or multiple vendors to resolve development and deployment issues, BEA customers will be able to have access to one of the world’s first and only environments designed for blended Apache Tomcat and BEA Weblogic servers.

“We are very pleased to expand our partnership with BEA,” says Mark Brewer, chief executive officer of Covalent Technologies. “Now, for the first time, BEA customers deploying the Apache Tomcat Application Server can take full advantage of production support and deep expertise from Covalent, the recognized leader in providing products and services for Apache Tomcat.”

"Developers want the ability to mix-and-match the best components and deployment platforms that give them optimal and unique building blocks to get their jobs done," said Peter Cooper-Ellis, Executive Vice President of BEA Systems, Inc.