SYDNEY, July 20 -- AsiaNet LEADERS QUADRANT... TAIPEI: BEA Systems, Inc. Tuesday announced that it has been listed in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Platform Suites. http://www.bea.com http://www.gartner.com ING APPOINTMENT... BANGKOK: ING Tuesday announced the appointment of Stephen Briones as Country Head of Thailand. He reports to John Howland-Jackson, Head of Wholesale Relationship Management, Asia and David Hudson, CEO of ING Bank, Asia. FIRST PRODUCTION... OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.: Kerr-McGee China Petroleum, Ltd., a wholly owned affiliate of Kerr-McGee Corp., Tuesday announced that it achieved first production from four wells at its development of the CFD 11-1 and CFD 11-2 fields on block 04/36 in Bohai Bay, China, on July 18. http://www.kerr-mcgee.com OIL FIELDS... HONG KONG: CNOOC Limited Tuesday announced that Caofeidian 11-1/11-2 have come on stream successfully ahead of schedule. Q2 RESULTS... SINGAPORE: Asia's largest telco- independent Internet communications service provider by geographic reach, Pacific Internet Limited or PacNet, plans to issue its second quarter 2004 earnings release on 11 August 2004 (US Eastern Time). http://www.pacnet.com MONEY MARKET... SYDNEY: Charles River Development, a leading provider of financial software and consulting services to the global investment management, banking, pension and insurance industries, Tuesday announced that BT Financial Group (BT), has expanded its use of the Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) to include fixed interest and money market trading and compliance. http://www.crd.com STAFFING MANAGEMENT... MELBOURNE: Taleo Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise staffing management solutions, announced recently that Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) selected Taleo on behalf of its major new partner, ANZ. http://www.taleo.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of two securities issues amounting to a total of US$300 million on July 29, 2004 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plus accrued interest. http://www.fanniemae.com SUPPORT OFFICE... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Catapult Communications Corporation Monday announced the opening of a sales and support office in Shanghai, China. http://www.catapult.com MEDIA ADVISORY... REDMOND, Washington: AT&T Wireless chairman and CEO John Zeglis will host a news teleconference beginning at 12:00 p.m. EDT (9:00 PDT) on Tuesday, July 20 to announce and discuss an innovative new wireless service offer. EURAND AWARD... MILAN, Italy: Eurand, a specialty pharmaceutical company, and the Controlled Release Society (CRS) Monday announced the winners of the 2004 Eurand Award Program, which honors innovation in oral drug delivery. http://www.eurand.com ASSET ACQUISITION... LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.: Datacolor Tuesday announced the acquisition of all assets of privately held Milori, Inc. which develops and sells color calibration systems for the projection and presentation markets. http://www.datacolor.com REGIONAL DISTRIBUTOR... FREMONT, Calif. and HONG KONG: Lexar Media, Inc., a leading marketer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media and accessories, Monday announced the opening of a sales and marketing office in Hong Kong, the company's first regional office dedicated to expanding its business in Greater China. http://www.lexarmedia.com NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE... MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.: CNT, the global expert in storage networking solutions, Monday announced the UltraNet Multi-service Director (UMD), a new generation storage networking infrastructure platform that delivers unmatched performance capabilities and provides the industry's highest levels of scalability, flexibility, and serviceability to support SAN consolidation, tiered storage/ ILM and utility computing. http://www.cnt.com CONFIGURATION STORAGE... SAN JOSE, Calif.: Atmel Corporation Monday introduced the only commercially available FPGA configuration ICs to provide single-chip configuration storage for FPGAs with as many as 8-million gates. http://www.atmel.com REALE PARTNERSHIP... WALLINGFORD, Conn.: Mangrove Systems, developer of the industry's first metro and access solution to enable end-to-end MPLS, Monday announced a technology integration and resale partnership with Ahead Communications Systems, Inc., a leading provider of multi-service switching solutions. http://www.mangrovesystems.com DATA ACCESS... MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.: Bytemobile, the company dedicated to delivering pure, optimized access to network operators, service providers and enterprises, Monday announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS. http://www.bytemobile.com http://www.symbian.com (AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.)--InfoQuest (PP)--