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Mineola, NY - June 9, 2005 -- FatWire Software, a leading provider of content management solutions for deploying Web sites and content-centric applications, today announced its support for a new Service Infrastructure product strategy introduced by BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS). Developed to help increase business agility while reducing IT cost and complexity, the Service Infrastructure products from BEA can help companies manage the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle and swiftly assemble composite applications and processes in heterogeneous environment. BEA Service Infrastructure product family is designed to help companies make the transition from pilot to full enterprise-wide production of their SOA.

SOA is a software design approach that takes the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services can be combined and reused in composite applications and processes to meet business needs. Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable the successful deployment of SOA in business environments by allowing services to be discovered, secured, managed and assembled into composite applications and processes - regardless of the underlying technology.

"FatWire's clients are deploying increasingly sophisticated content-centric applications to attract, convert, and retain customers. These applications must integrate with many existing business systems and content repositories running on disparate technology platforms," said John Murcott, Vice President of Products & Strategy for FatWire Software. "We're pleased to support BEA's Service Infrastructure product strategy, which aligns perfectly with FatWire's approach to helping enable customers to leverage a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The combination of BEA WebLogic Platform and FatWire Content Server is designed to allow our joint customers to rapidly and cost-effectively assemble content-centric applications and processes in a heterogeneous environment."

Building on Success - FatWire and BEA
FatWire Software and BEA have worked together for over 5 years to provide hundreds of joint customers with a combination of infrastructure and application software solutions designed to help customers put content to work to grow their businesses and build competitive advantage. FatWire's Content Server runs natively within the WebLogic Platform, leveraging the portal, integration, and workshop environments. Open standards, Web services, and SOA are key components of FatWire's architectural strategy.

"Our customers are looking for simple and fast and standards-based approach to deploying a successful SOA," said Gail Ennis, vice president of Worldwide Alliances. "By simplifying the integration, deployment and management of composite applications and services, FatWIre Software and BEA can help our customers save significant development time and help them get from pilot stage to production with their SOA implementations."

Sevice Infrastructure Helps Move SOA from Pilot to Production
Customers have gravitated to SOA's modularity and flexibility, which is designed to help them to mix and match IT resources in a "virtual" infrastructure that is integrated while not being locked into a single vendor's IT stack. SOA also reflects a move from thinking about IT in an "application" context to thinking about IT as a "services" delivery business - helping to enable IT departments to create, assemble and deliver new services more quickly for use by employees, customers, partners and suppliers. As a new approach to enterprise IT implementation and application development, SOA can break down business applications and features into "services" - specific pieces of functionality - which can be efficiently built, combined, adapted and reused.

Many customers to date are already using their application infrastructure software (application servers, integration servers, development tools and portal software) to build and deploy their early SOA projects. As SOA moves from pilot to production, companies have found that they need new infrastructure that is designed to help them to quickly compose, deliver, configure and manage these services. Customers typically encounter this once they have built and deployed more than 50 services, which can result in a "services sprawl" that requires constant integration and can be difficult to scale. They also need new composition tools that work like an "assembly line" for building cars, in addition to traditional coding tools they used for "building car parts." Service infrastructure is a new category of enterprise software designed to help enable businesses compose, configure and reuse technology assets to meet business needs in a more assembly line model.

About FatWire Software and Content Server
FatWire Software is designed to enable organizations to put content to work by deploying content-centric applications and Web sites that can attract, convert, and retain customers. Organizations in financial services, manufacturing, retail, media/entertainment, telecommunications, travel, healthcare, and government use FatWire's solutions, which are tailored to meet the needs of departmental, mid-size enterprise and global enterprise initiatives.

FatWire's solutions are powered by Content Server, which combines complete business user control over the creation and presentation of content with a scalable architecture for dynamic content delivery and multi-site deployment. Unlike other Content Management solutions that focus on getting content under control, FatWire's solutions are designed to enable organizations to put content to work by delivering highly targeted and persuasive experiences to customers, partners, and employees.

Founded in 1996, FatWire has over 400 customers, including J.P. Morgan Chase, Sony, Radisson/SAS, European Space Agency, Nihon Seimei, and Bank of China. FatWire is headquartered in New York and operates offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information about FatWire Software's award-winning products and services, visit www.fatwire.com.

Contact:

Jeff Ernst
FatWire Software
jeff.ernst@fatwire.com
978-274-5570