IBM Z vs. Kong Gateway OSS
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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IBM Z | Score9.4 out of 10 | N/A | IBM Z is the company's mainframe enterprise server solution product line. | N/A |
Kong Gateway OSS | Score10 out of 10 | N/A | Kong Gateway Community (Open Source) is the open source community Gateway supported by Kong, Inc, in San Francisco. Presented as the world's most popular API gateway, it is built for hybrid and multi-cloud, optimized for microservices and distributed architectures. Kong Gateway is also part of the Konnect platform, Kong's enterprise service offering. | N/A |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | Optional | No setup fee | ||||||||||||||
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| Considered Both Products | No answer on this topic | No answer on this topic |
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| Would buy again | ||
100% Would buy again 19 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Delivers good value for the price | ||
94% Delivers good value for the price 15 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Happy with the feature set | ||
95% Happy with the feature set 18 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Lived up to sales and marketing promises | ||
87% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 13 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| Implementation went as expected | ||
100% Implementation went as expected 18 Answers | No answers on this topic | |
| IBM Z | Kong Gateway OSS | |
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| Small Businesses | Dell PowerEdge Score7.6 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | Dell PowerEdge Score7.6 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Enterprises | IBM Power Score9.1 out of 10 | Oracle SOA Suite Score8 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.6 | 10.0 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 | - |
| Usability | 4.0 | - |
| Availability | 10.0 | - |
| Performance | 10.0 | - |
| Support Rating | 9.9 | - |
| In-Person Training | 9.0 | - |
| Online Training | 8.0 | - |
| Implementation Rating | 8.0 | - |
| Configurability | 9.0 | - |
| Ease of integration | 9.0 | - |
| Product Scalability | 10.0 | - |
| Professional Services | 9.0 | - |
| Vendor post-sale | 9.0 | - |
| Vendor pre-sale | 8.0 | - |
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| ScreenShots | IBM Z Screenshots |








