Sunday, December 03, 2006

BEA Reports Third Quarter Results

BEA Reports Third Quarter Results;
Customer Adoption of Service-Oriented Architecture
and AquaLogic Drive 19% Year-over-Year Total Revenue Growth

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nov. 15, 2006 —BEA Systems, Inc., a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software , today announced certain financial results for the fiscal third quarter ended Oct. 31, 2006. BEA reported third quarter total revenues of $347.7 million, up 19% from last year’s third quarter. BEA reported third quarter license fees of $136.4 million, up 12% from a year ago, and services revenue of $211.3 million, up 24% from a year ago. BEA ended the quarter with cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments and restricted cash of $1.4 billion. BEA also ended the quarter with deferred revenues of $337.6 million, up 11% from $303.1 million a year ago.”

The podcast is available here

Google to Acquire YouTube

As you may already know, Google have Acquired YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.

You can find a Techmeme discussion here:

The Earningscast Podcast of the event’s opening remarks is available at this link.

And the Earningscast Podcast of the event’s QandA session with analysts at this link

Google conference call for December 6, 2006

The event is called "NASDAQ 18th Investor Program" and will be available in this webcast the webcast will be conducted by Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales & Business Development and George Reyes, Senior Vice President & CFO.

Also, many other webcasts will be available, from companies like microsoft to sun microsistems and starbucks.