IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition vs. Oracle WebLogic Server

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

116 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle WebLogic Server

116 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Score6.7 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	Score7.4 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 Edition

Oracle WebLogic Server

Application Server: $88.50
per month

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Pricing Offerings
IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Considered Both Products	IBM Verified User 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 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. Incentivized Helpful? Shiva Rajagopalan Sr Director Secops in Information Technology at GE (Medical Device, 10,001+ employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Rajesh Chandramohan DB2 Advanced DBA for Linux Unix Windows in Information Technology at IBM India Pvt Ltd (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) 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? Bryan Salerno Associate Director IT in Information Technology at Verizon Wireless (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Quashar Jamal Websphere solution analyst in Information Technology at Costco Wholesale (Retail, 10,001+ employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Fareed Abolhassani Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at rit (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) 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?	Oracle Verified User 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 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? Hakan Karayel System and Data Management Dep Manager in Engineering at Odeabank (Banking, 1001-5000 employees) 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 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Incentivized Helpful? Fareed Abolhassani Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at rit (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) 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 Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition

Oracle WebLogic Server

Comparison of Application Servers features of IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition and Oracle WebLogic Server
Feature	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition 7.3 31 Ratings	Oracle WebLogic Server 8.1 36 Ratings
IDE support	5.426 Ratings	6.032 Ratings
Security management	8.231 Ratings	9.034 Ratings
Administration and management	7.831 Ratings	7.036 Ratings
Application server performance	8.131 Ratings	8.535 Ratings
Installation	7.530 Ratings	8.036 Ratings
Open-source standards compliance	6.626 Ratings	10.024 Ratings

User Ratings
	IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition	Oracle WebLogic Server
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (33 ratings)	7.5 (43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.5 (4 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (6 ratings)	7.0 (3 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)