"A blended approach [featuring commercial and open source products] is what we believe will be successful," Levy stated.

Levy could not cite what percentage of BEA revenues are generated by the WebLogic application server.

BEA, meanwhile, also will gauge which technologies to build and which it should partner on, Levy said. Before moving to BEA in June, Levy was a senior vice president and chief technology strategist at Computer Associates, responsible for driving CA's global technology strategy.