Nokia and BEA Sign a Worldwide Agreement to Deliver End-to-End Mobile Commerce Solution

Nokia and BEA to market a single, integrated enterprise solution, tailored for scalable banking, financial services and travel applications

BEA Systems, Inc. the E-Commerce Transactions Company™ (Nasdaq:BEAS), and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced a global agreement to bring scalable, end-to-end mobile e-commerce (m-commerce) to the enterprise. Under the terms of the agreement, BEA will integrate, resell and distribute the Nokia WAP Server with the BEA E-Commerce Transaction Platform™. The integrated offering, called BEA WebLogic

M-Commerce Solution™, includes the Nokia WAP Server, the BEA WebLogic application and commerce servers, and targeted services that extend traditional legacy and Internet applications into the hands of mobile business users, who require sophisticated capabilities to perform m-commerce transactions over the wireless Web. BEA and Nokia will also equip developers with a complete end-to-end m-commerce development kit to build and test mobile Internet solutions.

Together, BEA and Nokia are elevating WAP solutions  from simple content delivery to transaction-oriented services  enabling enterprises to build corporate mobile services based upon a proven, mission-critical transaction platform. The BEA and Nokia solution will initially target banking and financial services, online ticketing, and telecommunications applications. The BEA WebLogic M-Commerce Solution, which combines best-of-breed technologies from BEA and Nokia, will set a new performance standard for reliability and scalability in wireless application servers, leveraging BEA’s proven technology used by over 4,000 of the world’s most successful e-businesses.

“Your office is now in your pocket. With more mobile phones in the world today than personal computers, one can easily picture a future where location becomes a matter of choice rather than necessity,” said Alfred Chuang, co-founder, president and chief operating officer of BEA Systems. The ability for customers to extend their existing solutions to a mobile device means that they can be first to market with mobile business solutions,” said Chuang.

“We anticipate organizations will start to provide more and more highly personalized services to individuals on their WAP-enabled devices,” said Greg Shortell, vice president Global Sales, Nokia Internet Communications. “In return, individuals will expect a reliable service, with rapid response and secure, mobile e-commerce transactions. The WAP phone will become their ‘personal trusted device,’ from which they can perform transactions anywhere.”

Earlier this year BEA and Nokia announced the integration of BEA WebLogic Server and the Nokia WAP Server. Today’s expanded integration enables the Nokia WAP server to take advantage of BEA’s high availability and seamless failover, enterprise-class scalability, personalization and security capabilities. This will provide independent software vendors and corporate developers with powerful, off-the-shelf solutions for creating personalized, transaction-oriented applications for any WAP-complaint wireless device, including Nokia’s Internet-ready WAP phones. The BEA WebLogic M-Commerce Solution will be available from BEA in Q2 2000.

BEA Systems, Inc.
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the E-Commerce Transactions Company™ powering many of the world’s most innovative companies that serve the “e-generation,” companies such as Amazon.com, Federal Express, E*Trade, United Airlines, DIRECTV, Qwest, Nokia, and Kaiser-Permanente. The e-generation relies on the Web to conduct their everyday business, demanding richer, more personalized experiences and the guarantee that your Web site is always available – every minute of every day. BEA’s award-winning e-commerce transaction platform, coupled with BEA consulting, education, and support services, helps companies launch reliable e-commerce initiatives quickly. BEA solutions help companies of all sizes build e-commerce infrastructures that leverage existing investments and provide the foundation for running a successful integrated e-business for the e-generation. BEA has more than 70 offices in 29 countries, is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

About Nokia
Nokia is paving the way to the mobile information society with its innovative products and solutions. Nokia is the leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks, related services as well as multimedia terminals. In 1999, net sales totaled EUR 19.8 billion (USD 19.9 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 56,000 people.

About WAP
For more information about the WAP protocol and the WAP forum partners go to http://www.wapforum.com.

Further information:

Fiona Robertson
BEA SYSTEMS, INC.
Tel. +44 1494 559508
fiona.robertson@bea.com

Christina Grenier
BEA SYSTEMS, INC.
Tel. +1 408 570 8330
cgrenier@bea.com

Claire Backhurst
Nokia Internet Communications
Tel. +44 7788 145460
claire.backhurst@nokia.com

www.nokia.com