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BEA acquires Neelan Choksi's SolarMetric
FREMONT, CA: BEA Systems has acquired Neelan Choksi's SolarMetric, an object persistence company whose object persistence engine, Kodo, supports EJB 3.0 and Java Data Objects programming models. The acquisition is intended to boost developer productivity and simplify Java development, according to Marge Breya, BEA senior vice president. SolarMetric enables developers to take advantage of XML and data stores without having to know where the data is stored. "The combination between BEA and SolarMetric I think is pretty straightforward," Breya said. BEA provides Java technologies and customer support and SolarMetric's technology helps developers be more database- and data store-agnostic. SolarMetric technology is planned for inclusion of the next major release of the BEA WebLogic 9.0 Server application server next year, BEA officials said. That release may be called WebLogic Server 9.5, according to BEA. Kodo also will be sold separately and supported in the company's WebLogic Workshop developer tool. The acquisition was the company's fifth in recent months. BEA did not reveal the cost of the SolarMetric acquisition but the company still has $1.6 billion in the bank, Breya said.