IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition vs. Oracle WebLogic Server

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Oracle WebLogic Server

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Score 7.7 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 6.9 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

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IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Oracle WebLogic Server

Editions & Modules

Application Server: $88.50
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IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Free Trial
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	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Considered Both Products	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition Websphere Liberty has a cloud ready runtime, embebed with a Developlment standards like spring, ee standards IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition has a native connections to IBM products, so when you have a IBM Environtment it the best way to get all IBM Beneffits Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition Apache Tomcat, WildFly and Oracle WebLogic Server Incentivized Helpful? MS Mukul Singh DevOps Engineer Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition Plesk provides assistance via its community forums, knowledge base, and premium support plans. Additionally, I had trouble integrating a new website onto the hosting, which was a bit of a frantic operation because it uses more server resources than other control panels. The … Incentivized Helpful? 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Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition Websphere Application Server provides better Security, high availability, easy troubleshooting, and good 24/7 support. Websphere Application Server has an easy to use interface. Incentivized Helpful? Rajesh Chandramohan DB2 Advanced DBA for Linux Unix Windows 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. Incentivized Helpful? Dinesh P Senior Infrastructure Engineer Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition WebSphere Application can complement with an IBM UrbanCode Deploy to do faster deployments in a Devops model for accelerated application delivery. Incentivized Helpful? BS Bryan Salerno Associate Director IT Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition IBM support is better than Oracle, from past experience. 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FA Fareed Abolhassani Information Technology Manager 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. Incentivized Helpful? Abhilash Barla Senior Engineer - Internet Engineering Information Systems Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition I recommended WebSphere because of my expertise on it and the great IBM support. Incentivized Helpful? Orazio Ray Pensabene IT Manager - Application Technical Support Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition IBM WebSphere is simply the best! Incentivized Helpful? MP Manoj Prasad Consultant Chose IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition I did not choose IBM WAS, it was a coporate decision. We are glad that we have been using this for a number of years and are quite happy as a corporation. However, it does take more time to learn WAS because of its complexity in terms of installation, various features and … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle WebLogic Server Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server I have only used WebSphere for an evaluation period but I felt it was even harder to learn and it's cost was going to be bigger in the long run. Oracle WebLogic Server was more like the middle ground for what we needed at the time, both in terms of costs and learning curve. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server As mentioned earlier we didn't choose Oracle WebLogic Server, but received it as part of the application we bought. After using it for a few years we found it to be a stable product that has a bit of a learning curve compared to Microsoft IIS but is as stable and maybe even … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server I wasn't involved in selecting the server we were using but in our team we've made some efforts to improve the local deployment process by trying some other Applicational servers too. Apache Tomcat was a more lightweight solution for sure, and it coped well with our applications … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle Weblogic Application Server is very robust and has good features and stability. It is a very sought-after tool for deploying many kinds of applications. Incentivized Helpful? Surbhi Singhal Senior Software Engineer Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle Analytics Cloud Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Director, eCommerce Analytics and Digital Marketing Chose Oracle WebLogic Server 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Gonzalo Segarra Sub-Gerente de Desarrollo Chose Oracle WebLogic Server We have no option because we need it to use Oracle Forms, but we have used Jboss and tomcat in other projects and Weblogic is more stable. Incentivized Helpful? Pranshu Sharma Service Fulfillment Domain Manager Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Apache Tomcat, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and IBM WebSphere Application Server on Cloud Incentivized Helpful? BN Binu Nair Software Architect Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle WebLogic Application Server is a leading server side container. It is far superior than IBM's WebSphere application server, JBOSS or Tomcat server. The easiness of using Oracle's weblogic application server is much user friendly and also it has great support and user … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle Weblogic Application Server gains its reputation from the performance, easy of maintenance, to be compared with the competitor solutions. However, Weblogic is "all-in-on" solution, sometimes it is too fat for some business needs that only requires part of the full … Incentivized Helpful? Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis, CSM Development Team Lead & Scrum Master Chose Oracle WebLogic Server The main competitor is Wildfly and Websphere. The choice it's all about the bundled cost regarding the chosen OS and Java vendor. All three are almost the same in terms of performance and features. An exceptional alternative from the OSS ecosystem is Payara. Payra has some … Incentivized Helpful? Sirish Vadala Applications Developer Information Technology Specialist Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Oracle WebLogic Application Server is much more stable when compared to opensource application servers like Oracle GlassFish Server or Apache Tomcat. Coming to JBoss Enterprise Application Server, Oracle WebLogic Application Server has better support with most of the cloud … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server I used them in different contexts. Incentivized Helpful? AM Aaron Moncrief Software Developer 1 Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Apache Tomcat requires a lot of out-of-the-box set-up that is difficult to work with, especially when it comes to production-ready configurations. The only advantage it has over Oracle WLS is that it's free, which is probably why many commercial server products are bundled with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Apache tomcat is used by the group of developers in our organization but the major student ERP production systems do run on WebLogic due to its feature-rich nature and stability. Although the cost is considered a hindrance to its wider use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server We use Oracle Commerce Cloud as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Best support of JEE specifications. Incentivized Helpful? PJ Prashant Jha Senior Technology Engineer Chose Oracle WebLogic Server We are using OBIEE application and when we install an application it is installed automatically with the application. We selected the WebLogic Server for better administration and maintenance of the application. It is very important for us to keep our production application up … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Amanda Decker Development Coordinator, Advancement Services Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Red Hat JBoss EAP is good and open source. We chose Oracle WebLogic because we are using Oracle products like Oracle Enterprise Manager and it's very easy to integrate WebLogic with it. Also, for our mission critical applications, we wanted an application server with great … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Compared to the alternatives, Weblogic is on the heavier side and requires more configuration to get it running. Instance startup time is also relatively long, but this could be due to the application size deployed on the server. Licensing cost for WebLogic would also be higher … Incentivized Helpful? Hakan Karayel System and Data Management Dep Manager Chose Oracle WebLogic Server We tested Red Hat JBoss. Then we decided to use WebLogic because of support issues we had with the other. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Performance is better with heavy workloads. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Pacheco Consultor ADF Chose Oracle WebLogic Server Apache Tomcat, Oracle GlassFish Server and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Incentivized Helpful?

Features

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Oracle WebLogic Server

Application Servers

Comparison of Application Servers features of Product A and Product B
	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition 7.3 Ratings 9% below category average	Oracle WebLogic Server 8.1 Ratings 1% above category average
IDE support	5.40 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Security management	8.20 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Administration and management	7.80 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Application server performance	8.10 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Installation	7.50 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	6.60 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Small Businesses	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10	NGINX Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.5 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (0 ratings)	6.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized AS Aashni Shah Clinical Analyst Read full review	I see Oracle WebLogic Application Server being appropriate when an application needs several different data sources and messaging providers configured and accessible, with a configured level of control of resources (connection pools) and timeouts. It is also advisable to create distributed resources that you can configure as always active to provide more processing power, or as failover for situations of availability in case of disaster recovery, for example. An application where the number of required resources configured is very small and almost non-changeable, and no scalability is required, some other options exist in the market with less cost. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	It works out of the box. Its basic functionality is all there and everything works with no adjustments. The functionality is there for fine tuning, to allow applications to be easier to access and quicker with some tweaks, but again, these aren't necessary for basic running. Incentivized Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Read full review	I love that the weblogic dashboard allows you to manage applications and see the status of each application. Oracle WebLogic Application Server simplifies usage periods in the development and production of business applications. Oracle WebLogic Server allows me to define various aspects of data source entry, including creating a specific multiple connection to facilitate data entry. Performance and administration are highlighted in weblogic. Incentivized Jayden Nishimura Digital Marketing Director Read full review
Cons	In this era of cloud technology, Websphere Application Server required Integration with cloud technology. Troubleshooting tools need to included in Websphere Application Server package for better troubleshooting of issues. Websphere Application Server comes with some basic performance tools and these troubleshooting and performance tools need to be enhanced. It's available in all operating systems like Windows AIX Unix Solaris Zos etc. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle WebLogic Server has so many features that sometimes it's hard to find the right place to setup things, I think the dated user interface does not help with that either. This has a direct impact when deciding to use it as your application server, you'd need to have the right people and invest the time needed to master it. If you're application justifies it then it will definitely be a great choice in the long run. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	Deploys fairly quick enough and like the roll-out update feature decreasing the downtime and also plays well with other integration tools as well. Incentivized Dinesh P Senior Infrastructure Engineer Read full review	Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features. Incentivized Amanda Decker Development Coordinator, Advancement Services Read full review
Support Rating	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! Incentivized Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Read full review	The Oracle support is not great sometimes. They take a long time and need a lot of data over and over to resolve issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	I did not choose IBM WAS, it was a coporate decision. We are glad that we have been using this for a number of years and are quite happy as a corporation. However, it does take more time to learn WAS because of its complexity in terms of installation, various features and special deployment and packaging needs. Incentivized MP Manoj Prasad Consultant Read full review	I wasn't involved in selecting the server we were using but in our team we've made some efforts to improve the local deployment process by trying some other Applicational servers too. Apache Tomcat was a more lightweight solution for sure, and it coped well with our applications needs, configuration and performance wise. Despite that, since we didn't got clearance to change that into our local servers, we kept using Weblogic to guarantee compliance between the testing environments and production. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	It has security features that has enhanced security of our enterprise and its data. WebSphere Hybrid Edition has improved performance making it easier for our organization to fix any problem that might occur. It has improved collaboration enhancing team work making the work efficient. WebSphere Hybrid Edition can be complex to individuals who are not familiar with it. Incentivized Gregory Jones Cyber Security Engineer Read full review	It made it easy to handle over a 100 of deployments across multiple nodes every quarter. It was easy to scale up our application to 36 nodes as the volume of transactions increased over the years. Helped us achieve 99.999 availability for our users. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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