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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Oracle WebLogic Server

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AOracle 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

    Podman

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/APodman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on Linux Systems. Containers can either be run as root or in rootless mode. Podman is open source and free, supported and maintained by the Containers organization, with code available from GitHub.N/A
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    Oracle WebLogic ServerPodman
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    Oracle WebLogic ServerPodman
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Oracle WebLogic ServerPodman
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Oracle WebLogic ServerPodman
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Oracle WebLogic Server and Podman.io
    Feature
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    7.2
    37 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Podman.io
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    Ratings
    IDE support9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management8.435 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management5.837 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance8.836 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation5.537 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance5.425 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Oracle WebLogic Server and Podman.io
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    Oracle WebLogic Server
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    Ratings
    Podman.io
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Security and Isolation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    SUSE Rancher
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Oracle WebLogic ServerPodman
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.2
    (44 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    6.0
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Oracle WebLogic ServerPodman
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Open Source
    While it always depends on your use case, I believe security concerns of need for root user is a concern, so it is worth considering daemonless container service over Docker, which works just as good and has support for docker compose. Another good reason is the licensing for enterprise usage, which podman has no restrictions for. It’s also a great choice for OpenShift integration, which is seamless and works well with Rancher as well.
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    Pros
    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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    Open Source
    • It’s daemonless, so somewhat more secure.
    • It works exceptionally well and is compatible with Docker compose
    • Podman Desktop actually makes individual usage also pretty easy.
    • It can be used as Docker alternative with almost no additional steps
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Debugging issues has been difficult sometimes, the documentation is too dense and finding the the root cause for an specific issue takes time.
    • The Oracle WebLogic Server console UI feels old and gives a sense of lack of innovation even though it provides so much functionality.
    • I'm not sure if Oracle WebLogic Server supports more modern frameworks, but it feels more like a Java EE specific, maybe there's an opportunity there to appeal to newer application platforms
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    Open Source
    • Podman desktop is getting more stable with each version, but does need more UX friendliness as well.
    • Official support for development tools and IDEs is missing for most tools
    • It works well with Kubernetes, but I wouldn’t mind additional improvements
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    Usability
    Oracle
    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.
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    Open Source
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    Performance
    Oracle
    Oracle WebLogic Application Server is great at security, performance and features.
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    Open Source
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    Support Rating
    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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    Open Source
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Open Source
    Podman is Daemonless, lightweight and doesn’t charge us for commercial usage, so it’s a relief for startups. Minikube and Rancher are a bit more complex for our use cases; so we keep things simple, fast and secure with Podman that can easily be managed with Podman Desktop and other works with our docker-compose based projects without issues.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Open Source
    • We definitely feel more secure.
    • We do not suffer from memory or cpu overuses as it uses fedora coreOS which is lightweight
    • We do not have to worry about license payments for our basic usages.
    • It’s open source so quick fixes imminent with maximum transparency.
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