August 24th, 2004
Yet another BEA exec clears out his desk
After three years of service as chief marketing officer and executive vice president, Tod Nielsen is moving on from BEA. Nielsen, who joined BEA after it acquired Crossgain (of which he was CEO) in 2001, is the sixth executive to break ranks with the faltering provider of J2EE-based application servers in the last two months. Over the last two years, BEA’s leadership position in the Java market has been heavily marginalized by its number one competitor IBM as well as open source implementations of the J2EE specification. Though none of the recently departed execs have cast aspersions upon their former employer, the emerging pattern can’t possibly be a coincidence. Is more bad news to come?
