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ATLANTA, GA., November 29, 2000 - BEA Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq: BEAS), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, and Peace Software, a global provider of leading e-business solutions for retail energy companies, today announced that Peace Software has built Energy Version 6 using BEA WebLogic Server, the market-leading J2EE Web application server. The new WebLogic-powered Energy solution is designed tostreamline customer and commodity management for the retail energy industry.

BEA WebLogic Server is an integral part of the Energy system's browser user interface (BUI), a highly intuitive, user-friendly application that delivers rich customer care. BEA WebLogic also powers Energy B2C for Internet self-service, providing customers with fast, reliable and secure online access toaccount information and e-commerce data around the clock.

"BEA WebLogic Server helps ensure that our clients' call centers run smoothly and efficiently so they can confidently deliver 24x7 customer service tomillions of energy consumers," said Paul Grey, chief technology officer, Peace Software. "We architected for break-through scalability so that as our clients' grow, Energy can easily handle simultaneous use by large numbers of call center agents and customers in rapidly expanding and growing markets."

At BC Gas Utility Ltd, the largest distributor of natural gas in British Columbia, Canada, Peace Software's Energy suite demonstrates its advanced reliability and scalability in a large-scale, highly intensive customer care environment. Deployed in the utility's high-volume, mission-critical call center, Energy enables customer service representatives torespond in real time to many thousands of calls and e-mails each day.

"The Energy system is crucial to helping us maintain fast response and full-scale availability for our customers as our business continues togrow everyday," said Patrick Lloyd, vice president of business technologies at BC Gas. "Using Energy, call center agents can access all relevant customer information instantly when the customer e-mails or telephones the company. Since the system was installed in April 2000, we have seen a 35 second reduction in the average customer call."

"Peace's Energy system is an excellent application of BEA WebLogic Server, helping deliver enhanced customer service in a growing industry now embracing the power of the Internet," said John Kiger, director of product marketing for the BEA E-Commerce Server Division. "Using BEA WebLogic Server in browser-based customer care is an industry first for the retail energy market, and we are delighted that Peace Software has built its call center solution on the world's number one Java web application server."

About Peace Software:
Peace Software International delivers the most comprehensive and cost-effective e-Business solutions to the global retail energy market. The industry-leading Energy suite is being rapidly deployed in 20 deregulating markets spanning North America and Australasia. Based on industry standards, the innovative and customer-proven Energy suite integrates comprehensive customer care, e-Commerce and customer self-service, EBPP for C&I and mass markets, and commodity management. Headquartered in Atlanta and founded in 1984, Peace is a global company with offices in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Visit us at www.peace.com

About BEA:
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with over 8,000 customers around the world including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business PlatformT are reliable, highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to Market quickly. BEA's e-business platform is the de factostandard for over 1,200 systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs) to provide complete solutions that fast-track and future-proof e-businesses for high growth and profitability. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 89 offices in 30 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com

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