Software: The World's Business Strategy Coined In Code

Alfred Chuang, BEA Systems, San Jose

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Mr. Chuang's speech will be the intertwined story of BEA's founding by Mr. Chuang and two partners 8 years ago in a one-room office, its achievement in becoming the fastest company in history to reach $1 billion in revenue and its current emergence in the top tier of information technology companies; doing battle with IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, among others; set against the technical evolution of BEA from providing the transaction-based; operating system for Internet business; to its current focus on delivering an entire application infrastructure that allows global businesses to develop, deploy, integrate and extend the applications that represent their business strategy expressed in 1s and 0s.