BEA Systems Inc. has recently opened a research and development center.

This is the first such facility opened by BEA in Asia–to support the company's Asian expansion plans, focusing on the development of technology that will be used to help BEA build on its current products, such as WebLogic Platform 8.1, and explore new markets.

BEA is the third company to announce a Chinese R&D center in recent weeks after NEC Corp. opened an R&D center in the Tsinghua Science Park in Beijing to develop mobile information systems for the next-generation Internet in China on September 9, 2003, and Intel Corp. also recently announced plans to establish a research and development center in Beijing.