BEA, IBM, Microsoft and TIBCO Software Team Up for Standardization

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Tuesday, April 19, 2005; 11:56 AM

BEA Systems Inc. (www.bea.com), IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and TIBCO Software Inc. today announced they will submit the latest version of the Web Services ReliableMessaging (WS-RM) specification, comprising both protocol and policy assertions, to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) for further refinement and finalization as a Web services standard. Incorporating broad industry feedback, the co-authors proposed a technical committee and charter to enable further review and industry collaboration on the proposed standard.

WS-RM has received extensive industry support and interoperability with a number of implementations beyond the authoring companies as a result of a series of feedback and interoperability workshops, with the most recent workshop having been held April 13--14, 2005.

Reliable message-based communication can be a vital element to enterprise-critical applications. Reliable messaging includes the ability to ensure that a message exchange has been completed correctly with no messages lost or duplicated. For example, within an order processing system, it is critical for the application to know that all items have been received and none have been duplicated.

The co-authors are committed to the development of open industry standards to help drive widespread adoption of Web services and will not charge royalties in conjunction with WS-RM.

"BEA is pleased to join with the co-authors and co-proposers on WS-RM to establish a technical committee for ongoing refinement efforts within OASIS," said David Orchard, director of technology at BEA Systems.

"Our customers will benefit from the functions that WS-RM provides as they develop more secure, reliable business applications based on Web services," said Karla Norsworthy, vice president of software standards at IBM.

"The submission of WS-RM to OASIS is an important step toward achieving a cohesive and composable architecture for secure, reliable, transacted Web services," said Ari Bixhorn, director of Web Services Strategy for Microsoft.

"TIBCO is committed to driving the development of open industry standards and the widespread adoption of Web services. WS-RM extends both the reliability and reach of a messaging backbone beyond the enterprise and over the Internet," said Matt Quinn, vice president of Product Strategy at TIBCO Software.

BEA Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: "BEAS") is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives.

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM software offers the widest range of infrastructure software for all types of computing platforms, allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business.

TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: "TIBX") is the leading independent business integration software company in the world, demonstrated by market share and analyst reports. In addition, TIBCO is a leading enabler of real-time business, helping companies become more cost-effective, more agile and more efficient.

TIBCO has delivered the value of real-time business, what TIBCO calls The Power of Now, to over 1,900 customers around the world and in a wide variety of industries.