Adobe and BEA have formed an "Enterprise Partnership" to co-market products. Under the deal, announced on BEA's website yesterday, BEA will bundle Adobe Flex Builder with BEA Workshop Studio and Adobe will distribute evaluation licenses of WebLogic Server with LiveCycle. It's an interesting development that should drive further adoption of Flex within the enterprise.

And last year BEA licensed BlueDragon from New Atlanta to make it easy to port CFML code over to WebLogic:

http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=pr01653.htm&FP=/content/news_events/press_releases/2006

We use BEA's WebLogic Portal product for our university portal (I've written several small ColdFusion apps that run as portlets in the server). My feelings about the portal software aside, BEA's got some interesting products they're working on, and it's encouraging to see them recognize and utilize other technologies like CFML and Flex.

I wonder, given this news, how close Jim Cramer's comments on CNBC "Mad Money" might be correct about BEA and whether Adobe may be the software company to buy BEA. Cramer was talking about Carl Ichan and how he is buying up shares of BEA in prelude of it being a takeover candidate and that a bulk of the shareholders were sticking with Carl (i.e., not bailing out on their shares). Cramer speculated that Ichan would not let BEA to survive on its own, nor that BEA could survive on its one. Given the fact that Adobe has discontinued future development of JRun, given Ichan's purchasing of BEA stock, could BEA be the next software company bought by Adobe? This is just speculation on my part, but the timing of this announcement is interesting also given the stock moves happening behind the scenes.

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