Compare TIBCO ActiveMatrix Lifecycle Governance Framework vs. Windows Server AppFabric

The TIBCO ActiveMatrix Lifecycle Governance product does not come with any user licenses. Customers will need to purchase either named user licenses, concurrent user licenses, or any mixture of the two as outlined below. Requires the customer to have a valid license for either the production or developer versions of the TIBCO ActiveMatrix Lifecycle Governance product. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Lifecycle Governance Framework provides design-time governance that includes everything required for service lifecycle management. Included in the platform are an SOA registry, metadata repository for service artifacts, service lifecycle management tools, service contract management, and design-time policy/validation management. The product also comes with a plug-in that allows Visual Studio or Eclipse developers to interact directly with registry or repository from their IDE.

Windows Server AppFabric extends Windows Server to provide enhanced hosting, management, and caching capabilities for Web applications and middle-tier services. The AppFabric hosting features add service management extensions to Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), and the .NET Framework 4. This includes Hosting Services and Hosting Administration tools that make it easier to deploy, configure, and manage Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) based services. The AppFabric caching features add a distributed, in-memory object cache to Windows Server that makes it easier to scale out high-performance .NET applications, especially ASP.NET applications.