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BEA appoints a new CEO
BEA Systems announced Tuesday that Bill Coleman is stepping down as chief executive of the business-software maker. Alfred Chuang, current president and chief operating officer, will take over as chief executive.
BEA Systems announced Tuesday that Bill Coleman is stepping down as chief
executive of the business-software maker.
Alfred Chuang, current president and chief operating officer, will take over as chief executive. Coleman, who has been CEO since the company launched in 1995, will become BEA's chief strategy officer and remain as chairman of its board of directors.
BEA, which competes against Sun Microsystems, Oracle and IBM, is the market leader for application-server software, technology that allows businesses to handle e-commerce and other Web site transactions. --Wylie Wong, Special to ZDNet News