
Continuing on its strategy of acquiring key technologies to build out its service-oriented architecture platform, <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1932642,00.asp">BEA Systems announced that it has acquired Fuego,</A> a maker of business process management software, in a deal worth $87.5 million. Plano, Texas-based Fuego specializes in providing SOA solutions to help companies orchestrate and continuously improve business processes. Sources said the Fuego portfolio will become a part of San Jose, Calif.-based BEA's BEA AquaLogic product family and will serve as the foundation of the new BEA AquaLogic Business Service Interaction product line.