BEAWorld 2005—PARIS and BASEL, Switzerland and IRVINE, Calif.—October 13, 2005 – BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), one of the world’s leading application infrastructure software companies, and Day Software (SWX: DAYN, OTC:DYIHY), a leading provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, today announced that they have entered into a technology alliance to deliver a JSR 170-compliant connector for BEA WebLogic Portal™. The Day repository connector is designed to enable BEA WebLogic Portal to interact with enterprise content repositories - such as Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX) - that are compliant with the new JSR 170 industry standard.

“Supporting JSR 170 can give our customers a standard, open interface to a wide variety of content repositories, helping them to develop fuller, richer portals,” said Bill Roth, vice president, solutions and product marketing, BEA Systems, Inc. “JSR 170 is emerging as one of the most important standards governing how content management and portal applications should work together. By leveraging Day’s engineering expertise around JSR 170, BEA is able to provide its customers with best of breed capabilities around this exciting new standard.”

“BEA is a clear industry leader in the enterprise application infrastructure space. The company has an excellent install base, a powerful distribution network and highly advanced technology vision. We are excited about the fact that BEA has selected Day Software to make BEA WebLogic Portal compliant with JSR 170,” said Michael Moppert, CEO of Day Software. “This is good news for BEA customers as they can now leverage the full power of JSR 170. And it is an important milestone for Day Software that a leading infrastructure vendor chooses our connector technology, which is designed to provide their customers seamless and robust access to Java content repositories.”
The BEA decision to integrate Day Software’s JSR 170 technology into their products serves as further support of Day’s position as a leader in the emerging market of Java content repositories. Day is the initiator of JSR 170, the new standard for enterprise content, and is leading a global industry expert group, including leading technology vendors such as BEA, IBM, Oracle, and SAP, which jointly developed the standard.

Day’s Content Repository Extreme (CRX) is the industry’s first full commercial implementation of the standard. By natively supporting JSR 170, Day CRX enables applications to store, manage and access structured and unstructured content in a robust Java based repository, making enterprise content easily accessible and manageable throughout complex companies and organizations.
For more information about BEA WebLogic Portal, or to download a copy of WebLogic 9.0 today, please visit: http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=index.htm&FP=/content/products/weblogic

A subscription license for the CRX Standard, Personal and Developer Editions can be purchased from the Day Online-Shop at http://www.day.com/site/en/index/products/content-centric_infrastructure/content_repository/online_shop.html and includes a one year license, which is valid for updates and online self-help support.
For CRX Enterprise and multi-processor Standard Editions, please contact Day at mailto:sales@day.com.

About BEAWorld

BEAWorld is the annual application and services infrastructure software technology conference designed to provide critical insights, hands-on instruction, best-practice strategies, and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals, industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.
In addition to working to make Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) a successful reality, BEAWorld delivers the latest information on infrastructure technologies from BEA including BEA Tuxedo®, the BEA WebLogic® products, the BEA AquaLogic™ products, the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform products, and a Partner Showcase to highlight the latest, innovative developments from the extensive BEA partner community. To register or receive more information about BEAWorld, please visit www.bea.com/beaworld.
Additional events are scheduled to be held throughout the year in the following cities: Prague (Oct. 18-19); Tokyo (Oct. 25-26); and Beijing (Dec. 7-8). Prior to the Paris event, BEA held BEAWorld 2005 in Santa Clara, Calif. (Sept. 27-29) and London (Oct. 11-12).

About BEA - www.bea.com

BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product lines – WebLogic®, Tuxedo®,  JRockit®, and the new AquaLogicTM family of Service Infrastructure – help customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve business agility and efficiency. For more information please visit bea.com.

About Day - www.day.com

Day is a leading provider of integrated content, portal and digital asset management software. Day's Communiqué product line offers a comprehensive, rapidly deployable framework to unify and manage all digital business data, systems, applications and processes through the Web. Communiqué's content-centric architecture, and its innovative ContentBus, turns the entire business into a virtual repository, bringing together content from any system, regardless of location, language or platform.
Day is an international company, founded in 1993, and listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange (SWX: DAYN) since April 2000. Day's customers are some of the largest global corporations and include Audi, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Post World Net, General Electric, Intercontinental Hotels Group, McDonald’s, UBS and Volkswagen.

For Further Information

Day Contact Information
Roger Maeder
Day Software AG
Barfuesserplatz 6
4001 Basel, Switzerland
T +41 61 226 98 98
E-Mail roger.maeder@day.com 

BEA Contact Information
Karesha McGee
BEA Systems
T +1 408-570-8288
karesha.mcgee@bea.com