Oki Electric and BEA Systems Form Global Strategic Alliance to Develop a Converged IT Communications Platform
- Collaborative Development Designed to Integrate Enterprise Applications and Communications Technologies -

The companies plan to collaborate to create a unified platform for delivering various IT services that combine Oki Electric's IP communications technologies, such as voice over IP (VoIP) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), with BEA's application infrastructure software. Oki Electric plans to develop the SIP module on BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 in the first quarter of 2004. This work is designed to make it easier for customers to integrate enterprise applications and communications technologies in order to offer new communications services. For example, customers could be able to communicate with business and personal associates using various IP communications methods, such as IP telephony, video conferencing, instant messaging and presence information.

BEA and Oki Electric plan to cooperate on joint sales and marketing activities for the new business applications platform. For the Japanese market, Oki will sell a SIP module and software components along with BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform™ to the enterprise customers and independent software vendors. Additionally, Oki Electric and its partners plan to create solutions utilizing this platform to further enhance its value for clients. Oki Electric also intends to integrate this development work and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform to its CenterStage® AS platform applications server, effectively combining voice communication and Web technologies.

"BEA WebLogic can offer our customers and partners a faster time to value by converging application development and application integration into a unified, simplified and extensible application infrastructure platform," said Olivier Helleboid, executive vice president of products, BEA Systems. "BEA and Oki Electric are partnering worldwide to converge Internet and communications technologies so that customers can develop and supply a new generation of services that drive top-line revenue."

"As part of our company-wide strategy, Oki places great importance on the convergence of IT and telecommunications, and we are offering such a converged product under the brand name AP@PLAT," said Toshinao Takeuchi, president of NetBusiness Solutions Company at Oki Electric. "By integrating Oki's strength in VoIP, computer telephony integration, security and networking technologies with BEA's world-leading web transaction system, I believe this partnership will contribute to improving customers' business efficiencies."

Oki Electric and BEA have worked for many years already in the Japanese market, leveraging Oki Electric's extensive industry expertise and system integration experience to jointly develop the market for BEA Tuxedo® and BEA WebLogic® applications and solutions. This new agreement extends the companies' existing relationship worldwide, enabling Oki to further leverage its industry-leading SIP technology as a global partner of BEA.

About Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Founded more than a century ago in 1881, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. is Japan's first telecommunications manufacturer, with its headquarter in Tokyo, Japan. With the corporate vision, "Oki, Network Solutions for a Global Society," Oki Electric provides top-quality products, technologies and solutions to its customers through its telecommunications systems, information systems and electronic devices segments. All three segments are integrated into one effective organization that functions as a collective force to create exciting new products and technologies, including information and telecom converged solutions. Through its business activities, Oki Electric satisfies a spectrum of customer needs in various markets.

About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation for 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 77 offices in 31 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the completion, implementation, benefits, and details of the alliance between BEA and Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. ("Alliance Partner"); the development efforts, product delivery and other goals related to this relationship; and the features and benefits of BEA's and Alliance Partner's products. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development and optimization BEA's or Alliance Partner's products; the timing of additional investments of resources by BEA and Alliance Partner related to any joint development initiatives; changes in the marketplace for enterprise-wide software solutions, including the introduction or increased sales of products competitive with BEA's or Alliance Partner's products; and any software errors related to BEA's or Alliance Partner's products or the integration thereof. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2003 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.

Notes:
BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic JRockit, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, BEA eLink and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. CenterStage is a registered trademark of Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. in Japan. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.