IBM WebSphere Application Server Competitors and Alternatives
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Dan Marin
Branch Technical Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Light, with an easy initial setup and a good set of features
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is much lighter as an application server than other solutions that we used before. We used IBM Workshare Application Server and Oracle WebLogic. They are heavy application servers. JBoss is lighter. It starts faster and iterates its application fast. It's much, much faster than the competition."
- "IBM offered JAVA profiling, which is something I used often and I wish that JBoss had something similar."
What other advice do I have?
We are using JBoss, however, we don't use the real business process management tool. We are in the prospecting phase at this moment. We are investigating a lighter BFM solution and going open-source as much as possible. We would definitely want commercial support at some point due to the fact that when we are going to sell the solution to our clients, we don't want to rely only on opening tickets to the community and getting it solved only whenever we can find an answer that way. We definitely will be looking for a solution with commercial support, however, at the same time, to also needs to…
Herve Guerin
Architecte SAP & Infrastructure at Teamwork
Good stability and good visibility but requires a better user interface
What is our primary use case?
We primarily use the solution for enterprise-level organizations. Clients buy it to manage their enterprise and to manage financial, sales, or production aspects of their firm.Pros and Cons
- "There are many features of the solution that are quite useful. For us, the most valuable aspect may be visibility."
- "The solution could improve its user interface."
What other advice do I have?
We're an SAP partner. We do also deploy some clients to the cloud, but 95% of the work we do with the solution is on-premises. I'd rate the solution six out of ten. I'm an architect, so I don't know enough about the implementation side to really be able to share any relevant first-hand experience in regards to setting the solution up.Get our free report covering Red Hat, Apache, IBM, and other competitors of IBM WebSphere Application Server. Updated: December 2020.
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