Why pay more... and get less?

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Oracle Charges More ... And Provides Less

Oracle requires licenses for backup servers¹, IBM doesn't requires licenses for backup servers
- Standby servers^#
- Failover servers^# when failover is 10+ days
- Remote mirroring servers^#
Oracle charges for all CPUs on a server even if "soft-partitioned"⁴ (e.g. with VMware), IBM charges only for CPUs utilized by WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
Additional costs for features that are included in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment but not in WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition such as Web cache⁵, Session initiation Protocol (SIP)⁶ and the SCA programming model⁷
Oracle has announced plans to stop support for Itanium platforms but WebSphere still continues to support Itanium.
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Why IBM Smart SOA Application Foundation?

IBM Smart SOA Application Foundation from WebSphere delivers the innovation and performance essential to cost-effectively build, deploy and manage robust SOA applications. Results published based on the SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark showing WebSphere Application Server V7 as the highest performing Java EE server on a single node.

Why pay more?

47% more for 1st year license and support⁹ of WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition since Oracle acquired BEA – 3.5x the increase in license price of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment over the same period.

136% more for first year license and support⁹.

113% more to renew support beyond the first year⁹

Sources:

1. Oracle software investment guide, page 20-21. Effective: 28 May 2009

2. Oracle hikes middleware license fees (link resides outside of ibm.com) 20 Jun 2008

3. Oracle software investment guide – partitioning page 1 Effective: 15 Jan 2008

4. Included in WebLogic Suite*. See Oracle data sheet - Feature Matrix Oracle WebLogic Enterprise Edition 2009

5. Included in Oracle Communications Converged Application Server (link resides outside of ibm.com)**

6. Included in SOA Suite***. See Oracle White Paper - Oracle SOA Suite 11g Jan 2009

7. SPECjAppServer is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).

8. Based on taking the ratio of list price for the application server software used in the benchmark and the throughput of the benchmark result for the Oracle (link resides outside of ibm.com) and IBM (link resides outside of ibm.com) on comparable hardware.

9. Savings based on publicly available information as of 2/10/2011 comparing Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition to IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, both on an IBM Power 730 Express server (2 chips, 8 cores each).

*WebLogic Suite processor license: $45k¹
**Oracle Communications Converged Application Server: price not avail.
***Soa Suite processor license: $57.5k¹
# WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition processor license: $25k¹

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