In recent years, Open Source Software has been receiving significant consideration in the IT industry. As the maturity and reliability of open source application servers increases, more organizations will be looking to introduce them into their environment. While some concerns regarding open source are still being debated, a number of companies are experimenting with and deploying open source application servers in their datacenters. While some are attracted to the ability to view and modify source code as needed, a large majority are attracted to the perceived cost savings of open source. There is no question that for certain types of deployment environments products such as Apache Tomcat, Geronimo, JBoss® Application Server (JBoss or JBoss AS) and IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition (WAS CE) may be cost-effective alternatives, and it is important for IT managers to take advantage of the cost savings they can offer. In many environments, however, commercial application servers have cost advantages over OSS alternatives. As our study demonstrates, using an OSS application server under those circumstances can actually be higher.
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Ask the right questions and do the math. A comparison of IBM WebSphere Application Server to JBoss Application Server by Red HatChoosing IBM WebSphere Application Server over JBoss Application ServerAs Easy as 1-2-3
Succeeding in today's smarter world not only means from insufficient performance and scalability, struggling with utilizing technology to create intelligent, instrumented and insufficient documentation, dealing with cumbersome security, interconnected solutions, but leveraging that technology or not having access to the latest innovation and technologies, to optimize costs and do more with less. Subsequently, all of which can significantly increase total cost of ownership and determining the lowest cost solution isn't simply a matter negatively impact your business success. of comparing two vendors' prices, but assessing how the technology and features provided by those solutions can While JBoss may tempt customers with its lack of license influence their total cost of ownership. The right solution will not fees, an IBM Business Value Assessment showed that license only have the lowest cost, but keep your applications running costs only account for 14% of total cost of application server smoother and help you meet your IT objectives. ownership. The remaining 86% of costs consist of hardware, training, support, development and management costs. These With ever-increasing pressure to reduce costs, many companies costs can be easy to overlook and difficult to quantify, but a are specifically looking to open source as a way to save money, recent study performed by Summa Technologies showed that which might mean considering a JBoss Application Server when these factors are taken into account, JBoss AS v5 costs as (AS). Open source application servers can certainly be cost- much as 70% more than IBM WAS v7. effective solutions in single server environments running one or two Web applications. In these cases cost and simplicity are key IBM WebSphere Application Server achieves its cost advantage considerations and security, scalability and manageability are over JBoss by delivering an effective and efficient application ® ®less critical. For these scenarios IBM offers IBM WebSphere foundation that helps you meet business objectives at the (WAS) Community Edition (CE), an open source based lowest overall cost. First, WebSphere helps you drive customer application server with no license costs. satisfaction with highly effective performance, offering faster transactions, less downtime, greater scalability and streamlined However, for most environments, consisting of multiple security. Second, it helps you reach customers in new ways by application servers in clusters, open source application enabling application innovation that gives you more options servers can be significantly more costly than their closed in reusing legacy applications as well as the ability to deploy source counterparts. These environments, which often the latest technologies without wholesale upgrades. Third, support business critical and key company-wide Java based WebSphere helps reduce costs through efficient development applications, can benefit from the highest qualities of service and management with integrated and centralized tools and up-such as security, scalability, and manageability delivered to-date and thorough documentation. through WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. By contrast, using an open source application server such as This brochure describes how these 3 key attributes of IBM's JBoss Application Server in clustered environments can mean application foundation help deliver higher quality of service at a needing to hire additional, higher skilled administrators, suffering lower cost than JBoss, making IBM the clear choice for you and your customers.
1. Performance
Drive customer satisfaction with highly effective performance AS v4. With JBoss's slower performance, it's your customers who For business critical environments, IBM WebSphere's demand performance that get left behind, with less responsive application foundation will help you deliver higher quality applications that ultimately reflect poorly on IT.application performance, and an enhanced experience for customers that JBoss can't match. This not only means that you... [download for more]
