BEA entered fiscal ’02 with 1,500 partners and exited the year with 2,200. More and more independent software vendors (ISVs) continued to adopt BEA WebLogic as their standard platform because it helps protect their investment and allows them to easily extend the rich capabilities of the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform. Customers appreciate BEA’s best-of-breed strategy of offering high integration with third-party tools and the richest ecosystem of partners and ISVs because it lets them choose the best tools for the job and still be assured of maximum interoperability.