IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition vs. Oracle WebLogic Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
WebSphere Hybrid Edition from IBM is a collection of WebSphere application runtimes and modernization tools that provides support for on-premise and major public cloud deployments, in virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes. The user can choose any WebSphere edition and deploy Liberty and application modernization tools to help move to a cloud-native architecture, modernize existing applications and support an existing WebSphere estate.
$88.50
per month
Oracle WebLogic Server
Score 6.7 out of 10
N/A
Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud. WebLogic Server offers a scalable implementation of Java Enterprise Edition (EE) and Jakarta EE.N/A
Pricing
IBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionOracle WebLogic Server
Editions & Modules
Application Server
$88.50
per month
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Considered Both Products
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
IBM Websphere was better suited for our needs as we are a primarily Java shop, and it provided better customization and potential ROI. It also requires less downtime, and support is easier than Weblogic. Also, Websphere is better suited for a hybrid environment.
Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
IBM and weblogic are equally robust and support JVM's very well but where IBM is better is its out of the box integration with active directory that makes it easier to manage access control and security posture. In addition, the licensing model for IBM is lot more flexible for …
Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
WAS is an IBM product and gels with IBM database product. So, we have decided to go with IBM WAS. WAS supports more data sources than Oracle web logic. So, ideally it can be used with multiple databases.
Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
IBM support is better than Oracle, from past experience. Weblogic and WebSphere Application Server are somewhat similar versus the open source JBOSS. For many applications we had selected WAS to have a supported platform and used some of the competitors in other various use …
Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
I have worked on JBOSS and WEBLOGIC Application servers apart from Websphere application servers. WebSphere Application Server has a more user friendly admin console GUI. I believe WAS administration and maintenance activities are more easy and effective as compared to other …
Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
Websphere Application Server supports enterprise Java open standards, streamlines deployment, has very flexible management capabilities and better reliability and availability.
Oracle WebLogic Server
Chose Oracle WebLogic Server
My manager considered switching a few years ago to other application servers like JBoss or IBM WebSphere. The big reason behind the idea was cost. We all knew that WebLogic Server was suited to do the jobs very well. Oracle sales representatives worked well with my manager to …
Chose Oracle WebLogic Server
WebSphere is another major contender and they have pitching and are more updated/streamlined. I still prefer WebLogic from an administrator standpoint. Support is much better and there are more options for finding answers to issues or new features.
Chose Oracle WebLogic Server
We tested Red Hat JBoss. Then we decided to use WebLogic because of support issues we had with the other.
Chose Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle WebLogic Application Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server provide an enterprise-level well-supported platform for robust architecture solutions. They provide tools for management, monitoring, and interaction with multiple other platforms in the market. JBoss is …
Chose Oracle WebLogic Server
IBM Websphere is less easy to use, you need sometimes consultants from IBM to get the same things done by yourself with WebLogic
Chose Oracle WebLogic Server
Weblogic is better than JBoss in many way such as:
  • being able to deploy in multiple ways
  • clustering is supported for all of basic APIs and even JMS is also supported which is advantageous for high-availability
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Features
IBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionOracle WebLogic Server
Application Servers
Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition
8.1
29 Ratings
1% above category average
Oracle WebLogic Server
7.5
34 Ratings
6% below category average
IDE support8.224 Ratings7.131 Ratings
Security management8.729 Ratings6.132 Ratings
Administration and management8.129 Ratings8.434 Ratings
Application server performance8.429 Ratings7.333 Ratings
Installation7.928 Ratings8.934 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance7.124 Ratings7.423 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionOracle WebLogic Server
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(31 ratings)
6.9
(42 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(4 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM WebSphere Hybrid EditionOracle WebLogic Server
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM WebSphere Hybrid edition is well-suited for the development and deployment of large enterprise-level applications such as Electronic Health Records that are used in our organization. IBM WebSphere is appropriate for organizations that require strong security and compliance as it provides a high level of security and compliance features. This works well with organizations that are subject to strict regulatory requirements, such as hospitals.
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Oracle
If you need to have complex options in place you can count on Weblogic to be a robust Applicational Server you can rely on. But you would need to keep an eye on maintaining the framework updated quite frequently to avoid security breaches and subsequent severe situations. If you don't have other infrastructure for test purposes, I wouldn't advise you on having devs and QA installing this heavy application in their local machines, there are other lightweight solutions that would be a better fit for that.
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Pros
IBM
  • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has done marvelous in building and deploying Java Enterprise applications.
  • It also does well in automating deployment and scaling. This has made it easier for our organization to deploy updates to our applications.
  • IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition does well in security by providing features that protect enterprise applications.
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Oracle
  • The brand relation between Java and WebLogic Application Server usually provides a quicker access to programming features and their availability for the applications deployed.
  • The access to centralized configuration both from console and command line WLST eases the implementation of changes major or not in an organized and expedite way.
  • The maturity of the product is also visible in the available tools provided by the product itself, for both monitoring of resources and alerting for availability and thresholds
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Cons
IBM
  • Ease of use in terms of deployment, give simple interface to do simple stuff like Tomcat, JBoss or GlassFish.
  • Takes long time to start the server.
  • The Liferay wars need to be decorated and then deployed. Perhaps we could simplify that.
  • Some of the concepts are good for complexity that WAS can handle but could be simplified and better documented, like concepts of well and profile, context, etc.
  • A Liferay war file created using Liferay Developer studio runs fine in Tomcat, however that may not run in WAS 7.x because it needs to be decorated. I had one war for a Liferay portlet with a simple cron job, and had hard time running to WAS server. It was running on the latest free download done on my friends m/c. Other times I have seen that there are issues running a war file that runs on Tomcat but runs on WAS after lot of customization for WAS.
  • The corporations like this however, the product may need better vibrant community of users where issues can be discussed.
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Oracle
  • The Admin UI should be further simplified, the UI design was not too user-friendly— too many options and clicks required, difficult for the new beginners to figure out what they are looking for.
  • The admin server becomes the single failure point, although Oracle suggested some workarounds by setting VIP and VHost, it was not quite easy and straight forward.
  • Domain replication is hard, requiring a lot of knowledge and scripts efforts.
  • Admin will hang if the node manager communication encounters some issues for one or some nodes in the domain/cluster.
  • Not able to kill/terminate the stuck thread, the only way is to restart the managed server (JVM)
  • License cost is too high, for small businesses.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
Mostly we will be renewing unless the strategic direction changes drastically or there are other complelling external circumstances. We've been on a multi year project to modernize our legacy applications and that effort will continue for the foreseeable future.
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Oracle
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Usability
IBM
WebSphere Application Server is used across our organization. Most projects use this for Java products and applications. Being robust and scalable makes it even more usable. We love using WebSphere Application Server due to its configuration management ability made simple and vast across all java related parameters. It is dependent on the features and upgrades and IBM releases some great upgrades to WebSphere Application Server.
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Oracle
I would have given it a 10 but sometimes the hogging threads become a issue and needs server bounce. Except that, we are very pleased with the product.
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Performance
IBM
Deploys fairly quick enough and like the roll-out update feature decreasing the downtime and also plays well with other integration tools as well.
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Oracle
Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.
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Support Rating
IBM
IBM was quick to respond when we had an issue with our specific infrastructure. We raised a PMR, which they picked up quickly and updated us about every step of the way. We had an appropriate fix for quite a business critical issue within a fortnight, which was impressive!
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Oracle
The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
Cleo Integration Clould has many bells and whistles; however, when we added more maps and trading partners, it really slowed down. We found that the Cleo support was very slow to respond and there was a language barrier. IBM Websphere had better customer support and its processing was much faster than Cleo Integration Cloud
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Oracle
I believe the Oracle WebLogic Suite is probably a better all encompassing suite of development tools for the IT department. [It] is probably a bit more expensive than other competitors like Apache Tomcat or NGINX, but is worth the investment if you consider the savings from time to get code into production.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Continuous uptime of the business applications we manage
  • It's now much simpler for me to build and deploy cloud-native applications.
  • Because it can offload for me management and maintenance of the application server to IBM I can focus on the development, deployment and testing of the applications which is more important
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Oracle
  • WebLogic Application Server definitely had a positive ROI since all the applications are deployed on a single platform and making maintenance extremely cost effective.
  • Since all major cloud vendors support and maintain WebLogic, it gives us an opportunity to explore possibilities to move the organizational infrastructure on to the cloud without too much effort.
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