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2 unusual facts about BEA Systems


BEA Systems

BEA AquaLogic Commerce Services (often shortened as ALCS), an e-Commerce solution based on Elastic Path e-Commerce solution integrated with WebLogic application server.

The company's name is an acronym of the first names of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang.


VisiCorp

Early alumni of this company included Ed Esber who would later run Ashton-Tate, Bill Coleman who would found BEA Systems, Mitch Kapor founder of Lotus Software and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Rich Melmon who would co-found Electronic Arts, Bruce Wallace author of Asteroids in Space, and Brad Templeton who would found early dot-com company ClariNET.


see also

Visual Café

Visual Café was spun off by Symantec, being purchased by BEA Systems and sold as the development environment to an early WebLogic Server.