SUN MICROSYSTEMS AND BEA TEAM TO INCREASE CUSTOMER CHOICE AND REDUCE
IMPLEMENTATION COSTS

Companies Agree to Distribute BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 with Solaris[TM] 9
System Administrator's Kit and Provide Six-Month Customer Evaluation
Period

SAN JOSE AND SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- December 16, 2002 -- BEA Systems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), and Sun Microsystems today announced an agreement
to distribute an evaluation version of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0[tm] with
the Solaris[tm] 9 Operating Environment System Administrator's Kit. The
agreement is intended to maximize customer choice for J2EE[tm]
application servers for enterprise and Web services, and provide
customers a trial license of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0. Beginning with
the January release of Solaris 9, BEA is slated to offer a six-month
trial license with each WebLogic Server 7.0 distributed via the Solaris
9 System Adminstrator's Kit.

Solaris 9 is a key component of the Sun[tm] Open Net Environment
(Sun[tm] ONE), an open, integratable product portfolio designed to
enable the development and delivery of Java Web services. The
initiative demonstrates BEA and Sun's J2EE technology alignment as well
as commitment to customer choice and success.  The combined products
help provide significant advantages to customers including speed of
deployment, solution flexibility, interoperability, profitability and
24x7 operations.

"This initiative strengthens our relationship and underscores our
commitment to customers to increase choice and reduce cost and time to
deployment," said Stuart Wells, senior vice president, Sun Microsystems
Market Development Organization. "By delivering a six-month trial
version of BEA WebLogic Server 7.0 with every Solaris 9 kit, along with
the pre-loaded, fully integrated Sun[tm] ONE Application Server 7,
Platform Edition, customers can realize the immediate benefit of choice
and the open, integratable approach to enterprise and Net-based
computing."

"Today's announcement supports BEA's objective of providing customers
with a highly scalable solution that will enable them to compete in
today's economy," said Gamiel Gran, vice president, global alliances,
BEA Systems. "BEA is delighted to partner with Sun to offer this
end-to-end integrated solutions approach."

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the world's leading application
infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software
foundation for 13,000 customers around the world, including the
majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic brand are
among the most trusted names in business.  Headquartered in San Jose,
Calif., BEA has 81 offices in 34 countries and is on the Web at
www.bea.com.