Roman Kharkovski

IBM, Executive IT Specialist, kharkovski@us.ibm.com

WebSphere Application Server (v7)

vs.
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g
 Think
WebSphere Competitive Sales Team
John Donaldson Manny Amorim
Manager, Worldwide
All competitors
Director, WebSphere
Competitive Sales Strategy Competitive
Roman Kharkovski Krishna Kilambi
Oracle, JBoss, Open Source
Worldwide
SAP
Contacts:
US West
- Oracle WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
Francisco Zubillaga Michael Love - SAP WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
All competitors SAP - TIBCO WinRoom/Boca Raton/IBM
Latin America Worldwide - Pega WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
Ian Heritage - Competitive WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
Jonathan Langley
All Governance competitors (for Open Source only)
Oracle
Worldwide Worldwide

Eric Berg Jim Casey Ken Tracy

Oracle SAP, Pega WebSphere Competitive
Worldwide Worldwide Marketing

John Pawlikowski Asheesh Khaneja Anil Kumar

SAP, TIBCO, webMethods All competitors WebSphere Partner
Worldwide Asia Pacific Programs

Rich Naszcyniec Ed Angelovich Renee Curry

Oracle, JBoss WebSphere Competitive WebSphere Partner
Worldwide Marketing Programs

https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki2/display/Competition
 IBM
 IBM opera en 170 países
 Cuenta con más de 390.000 empleados en 2009 y sumando.
 Durante el ejercicio de 2010, IBM registró unos ingresos de negocio de 99.9 mil
millones de dólares.
 Resultado neto record de la Compañía de los 14.8 mil millones de dólares, un 10%
más que el ejercicio anterior.
 Red de comercialización externa de Business Partners -socios comerciales- que son
aproximadamente 100.000 repartidos por todo el mundo.
 IBM es la compañía de tecnologías de la información que más invierte en
Investigación y Desarrollo del mundo: más de 6.000 millones de dólares en 2009.

 La Compañía cuenta con 3.000 científicos y 9 centros de investigación
repartidos por todo el mundo
(EE.UU., China, Japón, India, Israel, Suiza y Brasil), más de 24 laboratorios de
desarrollo y emplea a más de 125.000 técnicos.

 IBM encabeza la lista de patentes registradas por la Oficina de Patentes y Marcas

de Estados Unidos por décimo octavo año consecutivo. Con 5896 patentes en
2010.
http://www.interbrand.com/en/best-global-brands/best-global-brands-2008/best-global-brands-
2010.aspx
 Almaden, California
The major areas of research at Almaden are Science &
Technology, including fundamental science, nanotechnology, spin
physics and photoresists;
Austin, Texas
Research include high performance/low power
VLSI design and tools, system-level power
analysis, and new system architectures.

Beijing, China
Research in ross-pollination among multiple disciplines,
including Computer Science, Human-Centric Computing,
and Management Science & Operations Research.
Haifa, Israel
healthcare and life sciences, discovery, verification
technologies, multimedia, active management,
information retrieval, programming environments,
business transformation, and optimization technologies.
New Delhi and Bangalore Brazil Research Center
information management, software technologies, IT infrastructure Smarter Natural
management, high performance computing, mobile enabled Resource Discovery,
emerging technologies, analytics, and human language suman systems,devices
technologies.

Tokio Research in computer science areas, such as multi-core computer architectures

and new machine learning algorithms, the IT field continues to expand into other areas
like new physical materials, systems engineering, and services sciences.

Watson IT hardware (ranging from exploratory work in the physical

sciences to semiconductors and systems technology); software (including
areas as diverse as security, programming, mathematics and speech
Zurich Nanotechnology
technologies); and services, with a focus on applying them to transform
Center
businesses in a wide range of industries. .
IBM‟s continued leadership in R&D

R&D investment

7000

6000

5000

4000
FY2009
FY2010
3000

2000

1000

0
Oracle TIBX Pega SWAG IBM

Data based off of most recent annual reports for each vendor:
Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/investor-relations/sec/index.html
TIBCO: http://ir.10kwizard.com/filing.php?ipage=7363487&DSEQ=1&SEQ=35&SQDESC=SECTION_PAGE&exp=&source=1323
Pegasystems: http://pega.ir.edgar-online.com/fetchFilingFrameset.aspx?FilingID=7802065&Type=HTML
Software AG: http://annualreport.softwareag.com/index.php?lang=en_EN&group=report
IBM: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/annualreport/2010/2010_ibm_financials.pdf
Analistas de Industria: Gartner

 Report: IBM Named Marketshare Leader in Middleware Software

for Tenth Consecutive Year

 ARMONK, N.Y., March 31, 2011 / Gartner, Inc. has once again
named IBM the worldwide market share leader in the application
infrastructure and middleware software segment based on total
worldwide revenue for 2010.

 According to the report IBM was the leading software vendor with
32.6 percent market share, extending its lead to nearly double that
of its closest competitor. According to Gartner, IBM grew 14.4
percent in 2010, twice the overall market (7.3 percent )..

 For over a decade, IBM has been named the number one share
holder in the worldwide application infrastructure and middleware
software market according to industry analysts.

 Gartner said. IBM was named the number one vendor in BPM
software with a 24.7 percent share, more than double that of its
closest competitor. BPM.
 IBM Confidential

This presentation is part of the

Oracle Competitive Encyclopedia

Topics covered in the encyclopedia:
Overview (pricing, strategy, roadmap, suggested competitive sales tactics, etc.)
WLS App Server positioning (comparison of WAS vs WLS)
BPM positioning (comparison with WPS/WID)
Business Modeling (comparison with WS Bus Modeler and Oracle BPA Suite)
ESB (comparison with WESB and WMB)
Migration (how to move away from WLS, TUXEDO to WAS)
Customer studies (success stories of converting Oracle/BEA customers into IBM)
Governance (comparison with WSRR and Oracle Governance suite)
Caching (comparison with WXS and Coherence)
Business Events (comparison with WBE and Oracle EDA Suite)
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IBM Confidential Take-outs
 The Competitive Replacement Offer (CRO) continues to be available, providing up to 75% off
entitlement to customers that agree to replace competitive middleware with comparable
WebSphere middleware

Take Out Proposed Our Advantage Available Assets

Play Solution
Oracle WAS ND,  Overall lower TCO and performance advantages  Migration toolkit
WebLogic / VE  Superior platform roadmap w/WAS VE, Cloudburst  Migration assessment funding available (need
OAS etc. approval)
 Lower acquisition and annual support costs  For fee, proven migration services via core
 Lower hardware and administrative costs partners and ISSW

Oracle WMB or  Products no longer strategic for Oracle  JCAPS to WebSphere migration value
JCAPS, WESB  Stable roadmap with robust performance and a proposition presentation and migration white
simpler migration for e*Gate clients paper
Seebeyond
 Preferable licensing T‟s and C‟s  JCAPS prospecting letter
 RSA Java DOM and Java Javacc grammar
conversion utilities

 Delivered Competitive Focused Sessions to the IOT‟s

– Oracle WL Server and JCAPS focus
 JCAPS migration road show being delivered with BP Certus in ANZ, with 20 targeted
customers. Others to follow!
– KBC delivered their migration story at Impact, where migration tools were developed
 Migrations News Alert – April 13 “$250M Oracle workload wins over last 24 months”
 Unsolicited proposal letters being delivered to Oracle customers in April and May
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Stop & Think

IBM can help reduce your data and application management costs
by as much as 30% or more… let us show you how!

If you’re using Oracle database or middleware, you could qualify for a

Complimentary Conversion Readiness Assessment
Your assessment could include one or more of the following:
• Business Value Assessment
… a detailed financial analysis of the savings you can achieve by converting to IBM products

• Application conversion assessment for up to 3 applications

… a customized technical evaluation and conversion plan for your applications

• “DB2 for Oracle Professionals” workshop

… an intensive training class to add certified DB2 skills to your Oracle Developer and DBA teams

• Proof of Concept
… a demonstration of the compatibility and performance of your Oracle Database and WebLogic
applications on IBM DB2 and WebSphere
Available to current U.S. Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition installed base clients interested in converting Oracle
Database or WebLogic Application Server applications to IBM DB2 or WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment who meet certain criteria One
conversion readiness assessment per client. Public sector clients are not eligible.
COST based on publicly available U.S. information on February,10, 2011 for IBM DB2 Advanced Enterprise Edition, WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
and Oracle software with comparable capabilities;. IBM: 100 Processor Value Units. Oracle: assumes 1.0 processor multiplier. Both include year one license and support.
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IBM Oracle Initiatives

ic”
“Itan
P-
eH
Th

 Oracle Sun Attack - corporate wide initiative (WebSphere focus on BPM and Application Servers)
 Stop & Think - DB and middleware conversion initiative (BVA, education, conversion assistance, PoC)
 Oracle Evict - Targeting Oracle DB on P 4/5/6 for migration to P7/DB2 and extend to Weblogic(WAS)
 Power Pipeline Expansion - Clothe DB2/WAS/Netcool/Cognos deals with P7 (expand SWG
footprint to STG)
 SOS - Target SAP-on-Sun customers for P7/DB2/SAP stack migration
 Itanium Meltdown – Capture opportunity created by Oracle‟s withdrawal of support (STG, DB2,
WebSphere)
 Power Lifeboat - STG initiate to target HP Itanium customers
 Avalanche - DB2 specific program focused displacing Oracle DB workloads
 DEFUSE Oracle - WebSphere specific initiative focused on displacing Oracle middleware workloads.

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Top Three Oracle Competitive Products

 WebLogic Suite
(10 products)
BPM
 SOA Suite WebLog SOA Suite
(16 products) ic Suite Suite
 BPM suite
(6 products)

 The following pricing slides do not fully call out the following Oracle pricing
weaknesses. However, our competitive sales decks do!
– Many Oracle SOA/BPM products lag WebSphere product capabilities
– Oracle suites are static. Product substitutions are not permitted.
– Oracle suite licenses do not allow you to separate the products to run on different servers
– Oracle does not allow soft partitioning using VMware or OTHER virtual machines (except
for Oracle‟s own VM), which means you pay for all CPUs on the box, vs. CPUs assigned
to the VM
– Oracle charges full license cost for “Warm” backup servers - IBM does not
– Oracle charges full license cost for “Cold” backup servers in DR setup - IBM does not
– Oracle charges for “Cold” backup when failover is longer than 10 days - IBM does not
– Oracle requires clients to license technology IBM provides for free like HTTP servers, IP
sprayers, and caching proxies
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– Oracle development
MAR 2011 IBM CONFIDENTIAL
tools lack integrated local SOA/BPM capabilities for
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Price Comparison - WAS vs. WebLogic List Pricing

(WAS ND 100 PVU $18,400 vs WebLogic Enterprise 1 Core $30,500)
IBM WAS Oracle Oracle
IBM Oracle Network WebLogic IBM WAS WebLogic
Processor PVU Core Deployment Enterprise Standard
p/core Factor Suggested Retail Price List price plus 22% Suggested Retail Price List price plus 22%
includes 1st year S&S includes 1st year S&S
for 1st year S&S for 1st year S&S

EX > 4 sockets 120 .5 $529,920 $366,000 $141,840 $146,400

4-8 cores per (30.9% less) (3.1% less)
Priced: 6x4
EX
Intel 4 sockets 100 .5 $294,400 $244,00 $78,800 $97,600
4-8 cores per (17.1% less) (19.3% less)
Nehalem Priced 4x4
EX, EP 2 sockets 70 .5 $103,040 $122,000 $27,580 $48,800
2-8 cores per (15.5% less) (43.5% less)
Priced: 2x4

> 4 sockets 120 1 $794,880 $1,098,000 $212,760 $439,200

770, 780 4 - 8 cores per (27.6% less) (51.6% less)
Priced 6x6

4 sockets 100 1 $441,600 $732,000 $118,200 $292,800

Power7 750, 755 6, 8 cores per (39.7% less) (60.0% less)
Priced: 4x6

2 sockets 70 1 $103,040 $244,000 $27,580 $97,600

710-740 4 - 8 cores per (57.8% less) (71.7% less)
Priced: 2x4

T2
4, 8 cores 50 .75 $36,800 $91,500 $9,850 $36,600
Priced: 4 (59.8% less) (73.0% less)

6, 8 cores 50 .5 $73,600 $122,000 $19,700 $48,800

SPARC T2+
Priced: 8 (39.7% less) (59.6% less)

T3
8, 16 cores 100 .25 $206,080 $122,000 $55,160 $48,800
Priced: 16 (40.8% less) (11.5% less)

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Responding to Oracle direct attacks on IBM

 Oracle has delivered a series of direct attack webinars

– April 12, 2011 - No Contest: Oracle WebLogic Outperforms IBM WebSphere
– March 24 2011 - IBM SOA vs. Oracle SOA: Patchwork of Products vs. Integrated Suite
– February 03 2011 - Oracle Fusion Newsletter
– January 27 2011 Webinar - "Oracle Delivers the Future of BPM While IBM Is Stuck in
the Past"
– December 2010 Webinar - "Why More Innovators Choose Oracle Fusion Middleware
Over IBM"

 Internal - developed a “fact vs fud” type response to each and promoted:

– https://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki2/display/Competition/Attacks+On+IBM#AttacksOnIBM-
MAR242011soa

 External - Customer Webinar with Davis & Henderson to present their Impact prz:
– “From Oracle to IBM: A Customer's Journey”

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CPO Events

 May 24, 2011

Customer Briefing
“Optimizando la carga de trabajo con IBM Softwre y Sistemas Power¨

Hotel Nikko – Salon Pegaso 8:00 am

• Software IBM en Sistemas Power
• Consolidacion de cargas de trabajo
• WebSphere sobre Power
• Cognos con Power
• Nubes privadas con Power
• MIgracion hacia IBM
• Storage

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WebSphere Competitive Top Gun in Brazil!

 WebSphere Competitive Top Gun July 19-22, 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil:
 Register Here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/education/topgun/ebustop.html

 WebSphere Competitive Top Gun 2011 is NOT a product overview; it's all about taking the sale away from the competition. It's time
to stop waiting for the competition to attack, and set the battleground with our own competitive traps. Every sales situation today will put you up against a major competitor like Oracle,
JBoss, SAP, TIBCO or Pega. You need to be well armed, not just in how their products work, but their sales tactics, elevator pitches and landmines which are meant to throw you off
balance. You need to be attacking from the initial call and aware of how to respond quickly.

 Objectives of the class

– Know the Competitive Strengths, Weaknesses, Tactics and Best IBM Responses to win
against competition
– Be able to Handle BPM Connectivity, Open Source and Application Server Competitive
Objections
– Be able to Set Your Own Competitive Landmines for Oracle/BEA, Pega, Open Source,
TIBCO, SAP and Governance Vendors
– Know how to leverage IBM Resources to maximize your sales efforts and truly utilize
Team IBM
 Sample Student Feedback
– "I like the way of this class. It is not like the other Top Gun classes with a lot of presentations on PowerPoint. This is more interactive."
– "One of the best classes attended in 5 years with IBM because the content is more realistic. It is closer to the real world and makes it easy to apply into our actual work."
– "Very informative approach to answering challenges in the field."
– "I loved this course format. Probably the best education session in my 30 year career!"

 To reserve your seat, please follow the link and enroll now!
 http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/education/topgun/ebustop.html

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Overview of Steps to Conduct a WebSphere Migration

 Phase I: Discovery Call
– Goal: To provide a high-level understanding of migration options
and demonstrate IBM / Partner‟s understanding of the migration
process.
– Recommend the appropriate assessment or next steps.

 Phase II: Migration Assessment

– Goal: To provide accurate estimates for migrating all the appropriate
applications in a „like for like‟ fashion from the current application
server to IBM WebSphere Application Server.
– Steps: The migration assessment would contain the following major
steps:
A. Application Business and Functional Review
B. Application Architectural Review
C. Application Source Code Review

 Phase III: Full Migration

– Goal: To migrate all applications from the current application server
to WebSphere Application Server, resulting in equivalent or
improved functionality, performance and scalability.
– Steps: The migration work includes the following major steps:
A. Install and configure all environments and tools.
B. Migrate code to the new environment. Performance tuning of applications.
C. Perform End to End Testing (Link Testing) and defect resolution.
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Top reasons to migrate to WAS from WLS

 Lower license and support cost

 Better performance (less hardware, fewer licenses)
 Cloud support and virtualization (Cloudburst, WVE)
 SLA and QoS management (WVE)
 Unique administrative capabilities
 VMware and other hypervisor support and sub-capacity pricing
 Free products included (LDAP, IHS, Edge, DB2, MQ XA)
 SIP and Portlet API support included
 Native z/OS support
 Stronger value add products (BPM, ESB, BRMS, etc.)

Lower TCO with WebSphere Application Server

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Right after acquiring BEA in June 2008 Oracle

announced changes in its product roadmap and
OC4J* has been declared non-strategic product
while WebLogic Server has been designated
strategic. This means that no new purchases of
OC4J shall be made by customers as this product
will not see any significant enhancements. As of
June 2009 Oracle is pushing forced upgrades on
customers to move them from OC4J to WebLogic
Server.
*Oracle Containers for Java
Core Java EE runtime component of Oracle Application Server 10g and earlier.

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WebSphere Application Server family

Functional
Oracle
depth & does not have
breadth,
these
Centralized WAS and WVE for z/OS
Administration

WebSphere
Virtual Enterprise

WAS Network Deployment

Customer
Needs
WAS

Oracle WebLogic Server

WAS Express Enterprise Edition

WAS Oracle WebLogic Server

Community Standard Edition
Edition
High transaction volumes, High Availability
Capabilities
Oracle Sun Glassfish & Clustering, Advanced Web Services

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10 years of IBM performance leadership

IBM
 Held the most records in ECPerf SPECjEnterprise2010 results
 FIRST to publish SPECj2001
 FIRST to publish SPECj2002
Oracle: 9,456
 FIRST and ONLY company to publish
SPECj2002 Distributed
 FIRST to publish SPECj2004 IBM: 15,829
– Was the only vendor to publish for over
13 months
EjOPS per second
– Held #1 spot for 60% of the time
 FIRST to publish SPECjEnterprise2010
– Holds #1 spot for the past 12 months

Oracle
 Published their first SPECjEnterprise2010
one year behind IBM and is still significantly
behind IBM results
 Typical cost 57% higher than IBM
Source:
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Oracle Claims SPECjEnterprise2010 Lead:

Not So Fast… What About Performance Per Core Results?
ORACLE
Oracle‟s claim: Core per core, IBM beats Oracle
The IBM Power 750 Express is 51% better (224/148) and the
“(As of Monday, 20 September 2010)1 IBM x3850 is 8% (160/148) better than Oracle‟s T3 Servers2
Oracle’s SPARC T3-4 server, powered by four SPARC SPECjEnterprise2010 performance results per core
T3 processors and running Oracle WebLogic Server 224
11g, together with a SPARC T3-2 server equipped with 7,172.93 EjOPS
two SPARC T3 processors and running Oracle 32 cores
280
Database 11g, posted a new world record result for 260 160
all single-application server systems on a multi-tier 240 148 5,140.53 EjOPS
9,456.28 EjOPS
SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark.” 220 64 cores
32 cores
200

EjOPS/core
180
160
140
120
Software costs are often based on 100
the number of cores your system 80
needs. On a core by core basis, 60
40
which SPECjEnterprise®2010 20 Oracle IBM IBM
SPARC T3-4 System x3850 X5 Power 750 Express
benchmark results show who 0 4 T3 chips 4 Xeon chips 4 POWER7 chips
provides the better system? @ 1.65 GHz @ 2.27 GHz @ 3.55GHz
Oracle WebLogic WebSphere WebSphere
Server 11g 10.3.3 Application Application Server
and Oracle Server V7 and V7 and DB2 9.7 on
Database 11g DB2 9.7 IBM BladeCenter
PS702 Express

1Oracle
World-Record Performance claim: http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/performance-scalability/t3-4s-specenterprise2010-bmark-173308.html
2SPECjEnterprise2010 published results: http://www.spec.org/jEnterprise2010/results/jEnterprise2010.html
SPECjEnterprise2010 results as of 09/21/2010. Note: Oracle has not yet published T3 server pricing to determine price/performance metric
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Better performance yields cost advantages

WAS on POWER7 has 25% lower cost per TPS than a competitive application server
on an 8-core Nehalem server

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7

IBM AIX 4,840

64 bit Transactions/sec
IBM Power 750 TCA: $24 per tps
8 cores

Competitive application server

Windows 3,025
64 bit Transactions/sec
Nehalem EP TCA: $32 per tps
8 cores

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WebSphere dynamic caches and cache replication

(without modifications to the source application)
Caching helps to reduce the amount of hardware and software licenses and thus drives down costs

Edge Server(s) HTTP Server(s) Application Server(s)

Static Static

X
HTML
cache X
HTML
cache
Dynamic

XPage
Fragment
Cache

Dynamic
Dynamic

X
Page
Fragment
X
Page
Fragment Web
Cache
Cache*
X
services
cache

Web

X
services
cache

WebLogic has no support for such capability and will require

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WebSphere mixed version management Oracle does not support this

Adopt newer infrastructure as your plans require, saving time and money

WAS ND V7 Cell
Deployment Manager

ND ND
Node Node
Agent Agent

ND
Node ND
Agent Node
Agent

V5.1 Nodes V7 Nodes

V6.0 Nodes V6.1 Nodes

WebLogic does not support this, ”Why do I care?”
Enterprises can not afford to migrate all of their applications to the new version of the
app server at once as there could be dozens of those applications. With WebLogic
customers have to setup completely different administrative domain, deal with
overhead, provision additional hardware and additional administrative efforts
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Using Centralized Management to Install App Servers

WAS v7 Brings Centralized Installation Manager to IT Management

Challenge:
◊I‟ve got a lot of WAS-ND servers that I have to install and maintain !
◊Patch management of my WebSphere application servers (WAS, ND) is challenging,
takes too long, and I don‟t want to create my own way of doing it!
Solution Centralized Installation Manager

 Simplifying Installation & Deployment

 Supports centralized installation from the
Deployment Manager to Nodes in the cell
 Single install to the Deployment Manager which
allows Push install package from DMGR to
endpoints
 Select a set of hosts and push to those
endpoints
 Installs appropriate endpoint code based on
type of endpoint
 Agent-less
 Centralization of patch management

Oracle does not support this

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Installation Factory

 Create a unique WebSphere Application Server

installation package that is targeted to the specific
user environment

 Create a custom install package that bundles and

deploys one or more J2EE applications

 Install and update a new WebSphere Application

Server at a predefined maintenance level, in just one
step

 Support for stack products (WESB, WPS, etc.)

Oracle does not support this

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WebSphere Console Command Assistance

Automatic capture of administrative actions and generation of scripts to be replayed later

 While administrator performs

actions in the admin GUI
(start, stop, deploy, create,
etc.) all his actions are
automatically audited and
written as Jython command
script for WAS
 This script can be customized
and executed multiple times
thus saving time to create
complex administrative
actions and reducing the
learning curve

WebLogic does not

provide Eclipse tool for
administrative scripting
development and
debugging
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WebSphere includes free licenses of the following components

 WebSphere Edge Components: Load Balancer

– IP level WLM that provides scalability and availability through server
clustering and failover
 WebSphere Edge Components: Caching Proxy
– Enhance user response time by caching recurring static and
dynamic content for quick retrieval
 DB2 database
– Limited for use for HTTP session persistence only
 Tivoli Directory
– Production grade LDAP server
 IBM HTTP Server
– Based on Apache web server

IBM WebSphere Application Server includes these components at no additional

cost and allows users to install these on external CPUs (not the same CPUs as
WAS license) at no charge. All of these software components will have to be
acquired from 3rd party companies to complement WebLogic. This may
significantly increase license and support costs
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Oracle WebLogic Server costs higher than WebSphere
Runtime performance
Flexible mgmt for large deployments
Manage mixed versions in a single cell
Manage DataPower & HTTPD in admin GUI
SOAP & page fragment cache w/ replication
Eclipse toolkit for the Jython admin scripts
Virtualization capabilities
WS MQ Extended Transactional Client
Production HTTP server included
DB for session persistence included
Production LDAP included
Edge components included
SIP support
Portlet API (JSR 286), WSRP 2.0
Native z/OS, Linux on Power
Communication enabled applications
Software hypervisor sub-capacity pricing
Warm backup, cold backup (>10 days)
Cold disaster recovery site
Support cost
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IBM WAS ND Oracle WLS EE
Best in the industry 5-50% slower than WAS
Robust framework No -> Extra admin cost
Robust admin tooling No -> Extra admin cost
Productive admin tooling No -> Extra admin cost
Faster performance No -> Extra admin cost
Productive admin tooling No -> Extra admin cost
HVE, WVE, CloudBurst Limited -> Extra admin cost
Included No -> Purchase WSMQ
Included No -> Purchase Oracle Web Tier
Included No -> Purchase Oracle DBMS
Included No -> Purchase Oracle Directory
Included No -> Purchase Oracle Web Tier
Included for free in WAS No -> Purchase Oracle CCAS
Included for free in WAS No -> Purchase Oracle WebCenter
Supported No -> Not supported
Supported No -> Build your own
Pay for CPUs used Pay for all CPUs in a server
Free Purchase full license
Free Purchase full license
1st year is free, 20% thereafter 22% per year, plus 4% YTY increases
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WAS ND vs. WLS Enterprise pricing

IBM: $0

IBM: $cost
IBM: $0 IBM: $0
IBM: $0

Session DB
servers

JEE servers
Oracle: $cost

IBM: $0

LDAP
servers
HTTP
IP Sprayers Caching
servers
Servers
Oracle: $cost Oracle: $cost
Oracle: $cost Oracle: $cost Oracle: $cost

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In best case IBM cost is 90% less than Oracle application server

 Oracle charges 22% for the support – IBM charges 20%

 Oracle charges for the first year of support – IBM includes it for free
 Oracle support cost quickly goes back to the % of the list price – IBM keeps it at PA level
 Oracle charges full cost for “Warm” backup servers – IBM does not
 Oracle charges full cost for “Cold” backup in DR setup and when failover is > 10 days – IBM does not
 Oracle does not allow partitioning using VMware or other sw hypervisors, except for Oracle VM, IBM does
 Oracle does not provide fixes to those who do not have current support – IBM does
 Oracle performance for App Server is „up to‟ 2x slower than IBM – depending on application
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Migration example: Cardinal Health

 Cardinal Health is #18 on the Fortune 500

– $91B annual revenue, employs more than 40,000 Business benefits
people on five continents  Estimated savings of $1.25M
 Technical background over 5 years
– Until mid-2008 had 51 business critical  Gain strategic product with
applications running on WebLogic server on over clear roadmap
60 physical servers
 The Challenges IT Benefits
– Reduce overall IT cost & expand revenue  Re-design production
opportunities and reduce Data Center footprint environment around the cloud
concept of dynamic virtualization
– Needed to improve customer SLAs
done by IBM WVE
– IT environment consolidation  Reduce hw/sw by 20%
– “Greener” Technologies  Improve high availability and
– Introduce consistent management and support of reduce impact of outages
infrastructure  Commerce & Portal are in the
– Uncertainty with Oracle acquisition of BEA long term roadmap
 Uninterrupted upgrades
 The solution
w/application edition
– Migrated from WebLogic Server to WebSphere management
Virtual Enterprise running on SuSe/HP/Intel
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WebSphere Virtual Enterprise (WVE) and WXS

Source: Based on 55+ Operations Optimization Value Assessments done to date by IBM
Co$t reduction
Hardware Admin. Software Business

Grid Based Application Virtualization Power

Allows multiple applications to share a common pool of 25-40% 35-55% 25-40% cost
servers maximizing utilization of server resources 25-40%
Goals-Directed Infrastructure, Autonomic
Management and Self Healing 90%
Policy driven runtime reduces business costs directly tied 45-50% Less
to application downtime, contractual penalties for SAL
failures. Health monitoring for large grids. Multiple modes outages
of operation, including manual, supervised and on demand

WS Extreme Scale and Compute Grid

OLTP, batch, compute intensive workloads. Distributed
transactional cache. Eliminates need to build and maintain 100+ % 100+ %
code required to support highly transaction intensive
applications

Support for multiple types of applications

Custom built J2EE for WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss,
Tomcat, Geronimo, etc. Generic HTTP endpoints, PHP 25-40% 35-55% 25-40%
apps, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Commerce,
WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB,
WebSphere Registry and Repository, etc.
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What‟s different about WebSphere CloudBurst?

(1) (2)

Server WebSphere CloudBurst is a

Utilization synergistic fusion which
accelerates business value
across a wide variety of domains.

Metering/
Chargeback

WebSphere CloudBurst
enabled enterprise

(1) Assumes non-virtualized environment without WS CloudBurst

(2) Assumes virtualized & consolidated environment (i.e. VMWare ESX) plus incremental WS CloudBurst benefits.
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TCO Analysis: Quantified WebSphere CloudBurst Benefits

Without WS(1) With WS(2) Enabled by
Virtualization
CloudBurst CloudBurst
Optimization
New
100% Development Rapid provisioning

Strategic
New Benefits
Software Costs Change
Development
Capacity Reduced Capital Expenditures
Reduced Operating Expenditures

Power Costs Additional Benefits

Deployment
Current Reduced risk, less idle time, more
IT (1-time)
efficient use of energy, acceleration
Spend of innovative projects, enhanced
Software Costs
Labor Costs (reduced 29%) customer service
(Operations &
Maintenance) Power Costs
Reduced
(reduced 21%) Business Case Results
annual
Labor Costs cost of Total 5yr Savings: $1.9M (43%)
(reduced 59%) operation
Hardware Costs by 43% Breakeven: 8 mths
(annualized)
Hardware Costs Net Present Value (NPV): $1.9M
(reduced 30%) Return on Investment (ROI): 316%

(1) Assumes pre-existing virtualized & consolidated environment (i.e. VMWare ESX).
(2) Assumes pre-existing virtualized & consolidated environment (i.e. VMWare ESX) - WS CloudBurst benefits are incremental.
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WCA customer example: BSkyB

 Time to create new environments was measured in days/weeks

– Request to environment team
– Discuss with various teams
– Produce design
– Circulate for approval
– Provision storage
– Procure Infrastructure
– Insert into Data Centre
– Build VM
– Configure Security
– Install WAS
– Install Applications
– Manage
 Resource/Priority clash
 Keep operating costs flat as number of environments increases

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BSkyB results
 Create environments in minutes - DONE
 Standardise designs - DONE
 Simplify topology - DONE
 Reduce costs - DONE
 Pre-provision - DONE
 Automate - DONE

 75% of Dev environment types could be automated via a single pilot pattern
– WPS & Portal made up additional 15%
– Remainder need additional work to create specific patterns
 Average rollout time for Dev environment: 16 Minutes!
 Created/rebuilt over 400 VMs
 Demo to Senior Management
– Time to build Dev environments using WCA compared to current process
– Benefit obvious to everyone
– Approval to purchase & use
 Next step – automate production deployments with WCA v2.0

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WebSphere Competitive Wiki: http://w3.tap.ibm.com/w3ki2/display/Competition

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Think
WebSphere Competitive Sales Team
John Donaldson Manny Amorim
Manager, Worldwide
All competitors
Director, WebSphere
Competitive Sales Strategy Competitive
Roman Kharkovski Krishna Kilambi
Oracle, JBoss, Open Source
Worldwide
SAP
Contacts:
US West
- Oracle WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
Francisco Zubillaga Michael Love - SAP WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
All competitors SAP - TIBCO WinRoom/Boca Raton/IBM
Latin America Worldwide - Pega WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
Ian Heritage - Competitive WinRoom/Pittsburgh/IBM
Jonathan Langley
All Governance competitors (for Open Source only)
Oracle
Worldwide Worldwide

Eric Berg Jim Casey Ken Tracy

Oracle SAP, Pega WebSphere Competitive
Worldwide Worldwide Marketing

John Pawlikowski Asheesh Khaneja Anil Kumar

SAP, TIBCO, webMethods All competitors WebSphere Partner
Worldwide Asia Pacific Programs

Rich Naszcyniec Ed Angelovich Renee Curry

Oracle, JBoss WebSphere Competitive WebSphere Partner
Worldwide Marketing Programs

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Backup charts

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IBM List Price Comparison To WebLogic Suite
Oracle Product
Oracle WebLogic Server
Enterprise Edition
Oracle Application Server (OAS)
Enterprise Edition
Oracle WebLogic Real Time
Oracle Coherence Enterprise
Edition
Oracle Enterprise Manager:
Diagnostics Pack for Oracle
Middleware
Oracle Enterprise Manager:
Management Pack for Oracle
Coherence
Oracle Virtual Assembly Editor
Oracle WebLogic Suite
Virtualization Option
Oracle Web Tier
$54,900 Oracle Suite w/S&S ($45,000 on price sheet)
Additional information available in speaker notes
Mapping Commentary IBM Product Price / Type Price @ 100/PVU
Very close product
capabilities
OAS is not a modern WebSphere Network Deployment $184/ PVU $18,400
application sever. Pre-BEA
acquisition technology (10g)
No analysis of product
WebSphere Real Time $80.75/PVU $8,075
differences performed
Coherence exceeds WXS
WebSphere eXtreme Scale $148/PVU $14,800
capability in several areas
No analysis of product
differences performed IBM Tivoli Composite Application
Manager (ITCAM) for Applications $63.75/PVU $6,375
No analysis of product
differences performed
Product exists strictly to
No IBM mapping
simplify usage of OracleVM
Oracle only supports the
OracleVM hypervisor which WebSphere Application Server
$183/PVU +$18,300
has very small market Hypervisor Edition
share
Oracle lacks load balancing
capabilities but provides WebSphere Edge Included w/WSA ND
caching and HTTP server
$65,950

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Additional information available in speaker notes
IBM List Price Comparison To SOA Suite
Oracle Product /
Mapping Commentary IBM Product Price/Type Price @ 100/PVU
Component
Oracle 11.1.1.4 release puts product within
Oracle BPEL Process Manager WebSphere Process Server $1,000/PVU $100,000
20% of WPS functionality
Oracle Business Activity
Oracle lags in product capability and maturity WebSphere Business Monitor $987/PVU $98,700
Monitoring
Close comparative functionality. ILOG offers
Oracle Business Rules WPS Embedded Rules Capabilities Included with WPS
significantly greater functionality
Oracle Complex Event
Oracle products lags in ease of use
Processing
WebSphere Business Events $838/PVU $83,800
Business Events & Delivery Component exists only to enable Oracle
Platform runtime functionality for events
Mapping based on BPEL development. WID
JDeveloper WebSphere Integration Developer $4150/user
offers superior editing & debugging
Oracle Adapters Similar functionality of included adapters WebSphere Adapters included w/WPS
Oracle Business-to-Business WebSphere Partner Gateway
No analysis of product differences performed $415/PVU $41,500
Integration (Product mapping under review)
Oracle relies on complex ADF development for
Human Workflow forms development and lacks a business WebSphere Business Space Included with WPS
spaces type capability
Oracle WSM Policy Manager No analysis of product differences performed IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager $37,200/RVU $37,200

Oracle User Messaging Service No analysis of product differences performed Lotus Sametime Entry Edition $21.20/PVU $2,120

Oracle Enterprise Manager Tivoli Composite Application Manager

No analysis of product differences performed $83.50/PVU $8,350
Fusion Middleware Console for SOA Platform

Oracle Infrastructure No equivalent product needed. Component exists only to enable Oracle SOA Suite
Oracle Metadata Repository runtime functionality

$70,150 Oracle Suite w/S&S ($57,500 on price sheet)

$371,670
$125,050 including pre-requisite software w/S&S

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Price Comparison – 100% Core Licensing

• IBM and Oracle software is priced for all physical cores on one or more servers
• This includes virtualized platforms where virtual core count exceeds physical core count
• All software is installed on any given server
• WebSphere Integration Developer,& IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager costs are missing from calculation

• Scenario favors Oracle

IBM Oracle WebLogic Enterprise WebLogic Suite SOA Suite Product
Processor PVU Core Mapping Mapping Mapping
p/core Factor Advantage % Less Advantage % Less Advantage % Less
> 4 sockets 120 .5 Oracle 30.9% Oracle 52.0% Oracle 84.4%
4-8 cores per

4 sockets 100 .5 Oracle 17.1% Oracle 42.4% Oracle 81.3%

Intel 4-8 cores per

2 sockets 70 .5 IBM 15.5% Oracle 17.7% Oracle 73.3%

2-8 cores per

> 4 sockets 120 1 IBM 27.6% Oracle 4.0% Oracle 68.8%

4 - 8 cores per

4 sockets 100 1 IBM 39.7% IBM 13.2% Oracle 62.6%

Power7 6, 8 cores per

2 sockets 70 1 IBM 57.8% IBM 39.2% Oracle 46.6%

4 - 8 cores per

SPARC T2 4, 8 cores 50 .75 IBM 59.8% IBM 42.1% Oracle 44.0%

SPARC T2+ 6, 8 cores 50 .5 IBM 39.7% IBM 13.2% Oracle 62.6%
SPARC T3 8, 16 cores 100 .25 Oracle 40.8% Oracle 58.9% Oracle 86.7%

See speaker notes for specific WebSphere product mappings

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Price Comparison – Distributed Software Installation

• Oracle is at a disadvantage as the products in their suites do not come with independent licenses
• All software is priced for all physical cores on a given server
• Application server is not applicable since it is a 1:1 product comparison
• Questions to answer:
• How many servers are required to distribute software on to eliminate Oracle price advantage?
• Is the resulting server count reasonable?
See speaker notes for specific WebSphere product mappings

WebLogic
IBM Oracle Enterprise WebLogic Suite Mapping SOA Suite Product Mapping
Processor PVU Core Mapping
p/core Factor % Less % Less ORCL instances % Less ORCL instances
Advantage Advantage Advantage
req. for ≈ parity req. for ≈ parity

120 .5 Oracle 30.9% Oracle 52.0% 2.08 Oracle 84.4% 6.42

Intel 100 .5 Oracle 17.1% Oracle 42.4% 1.74 Oracle 81.3% 5.34
70 .5 IBM 15.5% Oracle 17.7% 1.22 Oracle 73.3% 3.74
120 1 IBM 27.6% Oracle 4.0% 1.04 Oracle 68.8% 3.21
Power7 100 1 IBM 39.7% IBM 13.2% n/a Oracle 62.6% 2.67
70 1 IBM 57.8% IBM 39.2% n/a Oracle 46.6% 1.87
SPARC T2 50 .75 IBM 59.8% IBM 42.1% n/a Oracle 44.0% 1.78
SPARC T2+ 50 .5 IBM 39.7% IBM 13.2% n/a Oracle 62.6% 2.67
SPARC T3 100 .25 Oracle 40.8% Oracle 58.9% 2.43 Oracle 86.7% 7.48

Calculation is a goal seeking exercise to determine the number of Oracle suite instances
required for their price equal the price of one IBM license for each mapped product

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Price Comparison – Virtualized Environment

• All IBM and Oracle software is loaded on one or more servers
• IBM software is priced using 50% sub-capacity of physical cores on one or more servers
• Oracle software is priced for all physical cores on one or more servers
This is simply calculated by doubling the Oracle core factor using the same formula used in other charts

• All software is installed on any given server

• Assume client is not considering OracleVM
Oracle WebLogic Enterprise WebLogic Suite SOA Suite Product
PVU Mapping Mapping Mapping
Processor Core
p/core
Factor Advantage % Less Advantage % Less Advantage % Less
> 4 sockets 120 .5 IBM 27.6% Oracle 4.0% Oracle 68.8%
4-8 cores per

4 sockets 100 .5 IBM 39.7% IBM 13.2% Oracle 62.6%

Intel 4-8 cores per

2 sockets 70 .5 IBM 57.8% IBM 39.2% Oracle 46.6%

2-8 cores per

> 4 sockets 120 1 IBM 63.8% IBM 47.9% Oracle 37.7%

4 - 8 cores
per

4 sockets 100 1 IBM 69.8% IBM 56.6% Oracle 25.2%

Power7 6, 8 cores
per

2 sockets 70 1 IBM 78.9% IBM 69.6% IBM 6.4%

4 - 8 cores
per

SPARC T2 4, 8 cores 50 .75 IBM 79.9% IBM 71.1% IBM 10.8%

SPARC T2+ 6, 8 cores 50 .5 IBM 69.8% IBM 56.6% Oracle 25.2%
SPARC T3 8, 16 cores 100 .25 IBM 15.5% Oracle 17.7% Oracle 73.3%
See speaker notes for specific WebSphere product mappings
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Oracle WebLogic product family content

http://www.oracle.com/appserver/appserver_family.html
WebLogic WebLogic
Server Server WebLogic Available
Product Description
Standard Enterprise Suite Standalone
Edition Edition
Oracle WebLogic Server X X X
Java EE application server.
Oracle TopLink X X X X
Java persistence architecture for rapid development of Java applications with relational databases.
Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) X X X X
Java EE framework that simplifies development by providing out of the box components.
Oracle JDeveloper
X X X X
Java EE and Web services IDE with UML modeling, Java EE design pattern framework, etc.
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse X X X X
Eclipse pug-ins for WebLogic developers.
Oracle WebLogic Clustering X X
Application server clustering and management for supporting load balancing and HA.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Diagnostics Pack for Oracle Middleware X X X
Browser-based management and monitoring environment for app server.
Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition
X X
In-memory caching and data grid solution for application servers.
Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Pack for Coherence X X
Tools to simplify the management of your Oracle Coherence Cluster.
Oracle WebLogic Real Time X
JVM with deterministic garbage collection for predictable latency characteristics.
Oracle Internet Application Server X X
Previous generation Java EE application server.
Oracle WebLogic Operations Control X
Policy-based automation of app server, enabling "self-adaptive" infrastructure optimization.

Oracle has removed the least expensive options from the BEA product list – namely WebLogic
Express and WebLogic Express Premium
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IBM offers broader OS support

WAS 7.0 WLS 11g
x86 Red Hat Ent. Linux 4, 5  
SuSe Linux ES 9, 10  
“Why do I care?” SuSe Linux ES 11 
IBM offers more choices. For those who Oracle Enterprise Linux 4, 5 
are concerned about the energy Asianux Server 3 
consumption, uncontrolled distributed Windows XP/Vista/2003/2008  
“server sprawl” and global warming, we Windows 7 
support zSeries platform and WVE HPUX 11i  
Solaris 10  
Risc Red Hat Ent. Linux 4, 5 
SuSe Linux ES 9, 10, 11 
IBM i 7.x, v5.x, 6.x 
AIX 5.x  
AIX 6.1  
HPUX 11i (PA-RISC)  
Solaris 9, 10 (SPARC)  
System z z/OS v1.7-v1.11  
Red Hat Ent. Linux 4, 5 
SuSe Linux ES 9, 10, 11 
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Database certifications
WAS 7.0 WLS 11g
Oracle 10g, 11g  
“Why do I care?” Microsoft SQL 2005, 2008  
IBM offers more choices and Sybase 12.x 
allow to pick the right product for Sybase 15.x  
the right job, which often can
DB2 8.x 
reduce the cost of computing
DB2 9.x  
DB2 for iSeries 5.x, 6.x 

DB2 for z/OS 8.x, 9.x 

IBM WS II Advanced 8.x, 9.x 

IBM Informix DS 10.x, 11.x 

IMS 8, 9 on z/OS 

CICS 2.x, 3.x on z/OS 

Apache Derby 10.3 

PointBase 5 
MySQL 5 No XA

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WAS offer rich programming model

 Portlet API (JSR-268) and WSRP

– Portlet API and WSRP are shipped as part of the WAS product at no extra charge
– Provides the ability to run JSR-168 compliant Portlets on the application server via
the same Portlet runtime that is provided with the WebSphere Portal Server. WAS
provides a simple Struts/Tiles based aggregation capability, but not complex
customization or personalization

 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

– SIP protocol is shipped as part of the WAS product at no extra charge
– WebSphere SIP performance has shown to be 2-4 times faster than comparable
SIP implementation using Oracle Communications Service Delivery (requires
additional licensing)

WebLogic does not support Portlet API and SIP, “Why do I care?”
For those applications that need these APIs, customers will find themselves
licensing additional Oracle or 3rd party products, dealing with additional install,
administration and likely adding new hardware to the topology. It will increase
complexity and add cost to a WebLogic project
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WebSphere Performance Monitoring Tool

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WebSphere Runtime Performance Advisor

 The Performance and Diagnostic Advisor uses Performance Monitoring Infrastructure

(PMI) data to provide recommendations for performance tuning
 Running in the JVM of the application server, this advisor periodically checks for
inefficient settings, and issues recommendations as standard product warning messages
in the log file and GUI console

Sample output:
Increasing the Web Container thread pool Maximum
Size to 48 might improve performance:
-Average number of threads: 48
-Configured maximum pool size: 2

This alert has been issued 1 time(s) in a row.

The threshold will be updated to reduce the
overhead of the analysis.

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Application and Integration Server Monitoring Capabilities

WAS WLS
Application performance monitoring GUI  
Smart performance analyzer and advisor  Thread
pool only
View of transaction across all tiers (HTTP-JSP-EJB-DBMS)  Limited
Log analyzer 
Collector tool 
First Failure Data Capture 
Dump analyzer - hang, crash, memory management  JFR ?
Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer - memory usage and performance  JFR ?
Memory Analyzer – Troubleshoot memory leaks and excessive heap consumption  JFR ?
Health Center – Real time monitoring of running virtual machines  JFR ?
Thread and Monitor Dump Analyzer for Java 
Trace and Request Analyzer for app server and HTTP plug-in traces 
Web Server Plug-in Analyzer – detect improper plug-in configurations 
Visual Configuration Explorer - Visually explore cross-product configurations 
Guided Troubleshooter 

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Web Caching with DynaCache
Oracle does do not have dynamic
page cache capability with ability
to replicate to the edge
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 Patented IBM technology
– used in IBM HTTP Server &
EdgeServer and now in Application
Server
 WebSphere DynaCache
– fragments of pages (Servlet, JSP,
Portlet)
– Reduces both load and response time
– Rule-based, time-based, and
programmatic
– techniques for invalidating cache
entries
– Can control external caches (WS Edge
Server)
 Performance gains with:
– Static Fragments (header JSPs,
navigation bars, etc.)
– Dynamic Fragments/Pages
• stock quotes, search results, ads,
levels of service
• personalized pages using shared
information (e.g. MyNews)
 Administrator controls how fragments are
cached
– Define rules based on Servlet, URI,
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WVE vs. WLS

 SLA enforcement
– WLS has a small feature that allows one to configure SLA for Servlets - this function only
works inside of a single JVM. I would argue this is not real SLA support as it does not
support web services, JSP, etc. See WLS docs here.
– There is separate and expensive product called Oracle Communications Services
Gatekeeper (link) - former BEA product. It has proxy based SLA support for several
protocols (mostly HTTP). This product is targeted at telecom environments and not
general purpose product.
 Policy-based Health-Management capabilities
– WebLogic has no similar features to WVE

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Application edition and non-disruptive application deployment

 WebLogic supports non-disruptive application deployments

– Revised version of a production application can be deployed alongside the older version
of the application without affecting existing clients to the application, and without
interrupting the availability of the application to new client requests
– Group rollout and validation mode are supported, but only for the pair of old and new
version and for limited time. See more
 WVE provides a LOT more app edition mgmt features that are not in WLS
– Many versions of the same application can run concurrently forever and routing is
defined by rules setup by administrator (based on cookies, user ID, client IP, etc.)
– WebLogic only supports two versions. Once the rollout is complete (after the last
HTTPSession in the old application expires) the old version is automatically removed
and there is no going back to it, like we can do it in WVE
– WLS does not support Atomic rollout, has no routing rules, can‟t roll back to old version
after the deployment and switch-over are complete
 Unfortunately WAS ND v7 does not support this out of the box
– But patterns and best practices exist that allow to accomplish this task

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Web Services Support (1/2)

IBM Oracle
Metadata WSDL 1.1  
WS-ResourceFramework 
WS-MetadataExchange 
Discovery UDDI 2.0  
UDDI 3.0 
WS-Inspection (WSIL) 
Messaging SOAP 1.2  
WS-Addressing 1.0  
WS-Reliable Messaging 1.1  
WS-BaseNotification 
WS-BrokeredNotification 
MTOM, XOP  
JAX-RS (REST)  Limited
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Web Services Support (2/2)

IBM Oracle
Security WS-Security 1.1  
XML Digital Sig&Encryption  
WS-Policy 1.5  
WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2  
WS-Trust 1.3  
WS-SecureConversation 1.3  
SAML 2.0  
WS-Federation TFIM
Transactions WS-Coordination  
WS-AtomicTransaction  
WS-BusinessActivity 
Interoperability WS-I Basic Profile 1.2, 2.0  

WS-I Attachments Profile 1.1  

WS-I Basic Security Profile 1.1  

WS-I Reliable Secure Profile 1.0  

Management WS-DistributedManagement 
WSDM Event Format (WEF) 
 - latest level is not supported
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Easing Application Serving Management Burden

New WAS v7 SOA Capabilities Ease Management of Web Services

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Easing Application Serving Management Burden

New WAS v7 SOA Capabilities Ease Mgt of Web Services (continued)

 Web Service Policy Sets

–Application policy sets
• Used for business-related assertions.
• For business operations that are defined in the WSDL file.
–System policy sets.
• Used for non-business-related system messages.
– Refer to messages that are defined in specifications which apply QoS.
– E.g. security token (RST) messages that are defined in WS-Trust
– E.g. Create sequence messages that are defined in WS-Reliable Messaging metadata
–Integration with WSRR
• WSRR will Discover WAS V7 JAX-WS Policy Sets
– Discovery of existing associations and represent those as policy attachments in WSRR
– Also for WAS V6.1 WS FEP Policy Sets
–Policy sets can also be customized

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Easing Application Serving Management Burden

WAS v7 Integrates with WMQ for Strong Foundational SOA Management Support

 WAS 7.0 includes a WMQ JMS JCA 1.5 Resource Adapter

– New panels and admin commands
– MDBs can now use activation specifications
– It‟s cognizant of multi-regions in WAS on zOS and supports zWLM
– It supports WMQ v6 and v7 (v5 is not JCA compliant)
– Existing methods are still available (e.g. generic JCA 1.5 resource, explicit
WMQ using ASF or generic JMS provider (using ASF)
 Leverage WMQ V7 Improvements
– Enhanced JMS performance
– Enhanced WebSphere MQ clients
• Increased throughput, failure detection and availability
– Web 2.0 support
• WebSphere MQ HTTP bridge employs REST based API

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