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[转帖]Weblogic VS Websphere（偏向Websphere）
Top Ten reasons to Choose BEA WebLogic over IBM WebSphere
 1. SI Market Adoption (IGS – 7%, BEA-aligned SIs – The remaining 93% of the market)
IBM global services (IGS) is the largest SI in the world (as well as the strongest proponent of WebSphere). Assuming IGS can retain all of their new PWC customers, they will have about 7% worldwide market share. IGS also now generates approx. 45% of IBM’s revenues, and has been IBM’s principal growth engine for the past several years. These facts have not been lost on Accenture, BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting), EDS, Deloitte & Touche, CSC, and so on, each of whom has strategically aligned itself with BEA. So, if BEA remains only somewhat successful at containing WebSphere to the IBM professional services channel, then WebLogic will presumably continue to garner a larger share of the market.
2. Hardware Alliances (IBM vs. Sun, HP, Intel, NEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, et. al.)
BEA competes with WebSphere on IBM hardware by selling WebLogic for mainframes (MVS and Linux), AS/400, AIX, and IBM PCs. We admittedly find it more difficult to compete with WebSphere on IBM hardware; however, many customer install bases are aligned with other Unix RISC players (Sun, HP, etc.) and Intel than they are with IBM. Intel has two strategic software stacks – MS Windows and BEA WebLogic. Intel is backing BEA because in us they see a Java vendor directly aligned with their interests (Sun and IBM make more money on SPARC or mainframe Java deployments, respectfully). BEA Java (JRockit) is now about 20% faster than IBM Java on Intel, and 40% faster than Sun HotSpot on Intel. Last quarter Dell began ripping and replacing WebSphere with WebLogic from their practice and internal use. As you know, HP is equally aligned with BEA against IBM. We have similar big partners overseas – companies like NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu – each of which backs WebLogic over WebSphere. And even Sun, on paper a BEA competitor, invests in their field to ensure that WebLogic wins over WebSphere on Solaris. So as long as BEA can continue to succeed at containing WebSphere to IBM hardware, we are likely to remain a majority of customer install bases.
3. Complexity (BEA – 1 WebLogic Solution, IBM – 340+ WebSphere Products)
WebSphere now has more than 340 licensable subcomponents. It is one of the most complex software products in the history of our industry. While Java-based products exist within the WebSphere brand that compete against WebLogic, the multitude of WebSphere products needed to address more sophisticated challenges causes complexity to grow exponentially as customers attempt to solve integration, security, portal, or management challenges with the WebSphere stack. Consider that for even simple integration tasks, there are separate (and often multiple) tools for business process management, Web services development & deployment, transformations, Java annotations, messaging, and adapter deployment – that is, the integration product set of WebSphere is not close to being integrated with itself! It was precisely the TCO associated with such complexity that doomed technologies like DCE, TXSeries, Component Broker, and San Francisco – and yet three of the four have found their way into WebSphere.
4. Total Cost of Ownership (BEA requires substantially fewer services than IBM)
At investor conferences, IBM touts their consulting revenues from WebSphere. IBM’s own funded research (IBM Business Partner Profitability by Reality Research & Consulting) reveals a stunning ratio of $21 for each $1 in software license revenue ($11.60 in professional services alone). We at BEA would claim those ratios are unsustainable. WebLogic at present appears to cost about 30-40% less for development than WebSphere, but our goal is to drive the cost of Web application development/customization at least down to PowerBuilder/Visual Basic levels. The market eventually wakes up to hidden costs, and rewards products based on TCO rather than discounted license fees. And yet, IBM has historically failed to deliver great ease of development and management (3rd-parties provided much of the ease-of-use for their mainframe platform).
5. Focus on Standards-Based Integration (BEA Leads in J2EE Standards, IBM Lags)
While IBM is a staunch advocate of Web Services/XML standardization, the IBM field is aggressively promoting proprietary alternatives to J2EE. Witness IBM’s focus on selling WebSphere MQ, WebSphere MQ Integrator, CrossWorlds InterChange Server, etc. As a result, IBM is the largest vendor of proprietary integration solutions that do not conform to J2EE. BEA, like Microsoft, has no legacy integration business to protect, and is therefore inclined to aggressively advance the J2EE cause.
6. Pace of J2EE Innovation (BEA – Rapid, IBM – Glacial)
It is no accident that IBM is (by a wide margin) the biggest downloader of WebLogic in the industry (1000s of downloads for each new WebLogic release). No doubt this is smart business – know thy competitor. But it also means that WebSphere remains, to some degree, a derivative of WebLogic. The innovations BEA makes today are very likely to appear in the next (or next thereafter) release of WebSphere. This is most easily demonstrable with Java standards themselves: BEA shipped the flagship of J2EE – Enterprise JavaBeans 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 – more than 18 months ahead of IBM in each case. Rumor has it that IBM is now working on responding to BEA WebLogic Workshop and Portal development environments. No doubt IBM’s validation of our efforts has been hugely beneficial to BEA, but it has also led to claims like the one that if your goal is to get to WebSphere next year, your best bet may well be to build on WebLogic today.
7. J2EE Market Share (BEA – Obvious Market Leader, IBM – Keeping you guessing)
BEA arguably remains the market share leader, although it is safe to say that both IBM and BEA have been the big winners out of on-going consolidation in the Java infrastructure marketplace. While the WebLogic/WebSphere revenue numbers appear very close from the analysts best guesses (IBM still does not break out the numbers between WebSphere, CICS, DB2, MQSeries, etc.), WebLogic still wins decisively on production deployments: For production transactional applications, Meta Group has us at nearly 4X WebSphere’s market share. Oracle has found BEA WebLogic deployed in 9X the number of production applications that they found for WebSphere within their installed base.
8. Open Systems Software Track Record (BEA – Proven, IBM – Unproven)
IBM makes much of their track record of success in the software business. However, the large majority of that success has come when IBM owns the underlying hardware – e.g., the mainframe software portfolio (CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ Series) as well as that for the AS/400. IBM has also done reasonably well with open systems software acquisitions – Tivoli, Lotus, and MQSeries are the big winners (for PCs/Unix, MQSeries was acquired from Systems Strategies, Inc.). However, IBM’s track record for in house software for hardware platforms they don t own – such as OS/2, SAA, DCE, DB2/Unix, TX/Series, Component Broker, and San Francisco – have generally faired far less well.
9. Software Technology (BEA – Bullet Proof, IBM – Bullet Riddled)
During our last earnings call, we reported that in a total of 220 hands-on competitive engagements against WebSphere last quarter, WebLogic was the victor 210 times. Those victories came not only from our development environment, but from our clustering architecture, our session protection, our policy-based security framework, our caching/replication, our universal hot deployment, our unique liquid data innovations, and so on. Going head-to-head with WebSphere technology is something that BEA remains very comfortable with.
10. Company Size (BEA – Nimble, IBM – Feigns Nimbleness by Marketing Futures)
IBM claims that BEA is too small a company for WebLogic to beat WebSphere over time. How then would IBM explain Tuxedo’s success against TXSeries. Tuxedo currently enjoys a six-fold market share advantage over TXSeries (Standish Group). BEA won that market share going against IBM in a discipline they large invented (transaction processing), and did so as a company that was a fraction of the size we are today.
Lastly, BEA does not compete against the greater IBM. Rather BEA WebLogic competes with IBM WebSphere, just as BEA Tuxedo competed against IBM TXSeries before it – a business that in size is BEA’s peer.
By our own accounting, BEA complements north of 98% of IBM's diverse businesses:
BEA WebLogic is deployed on IBM hardware ranging from PCs (running both Windows & Linux) to RISC Servers (AIX) to AS/400s to E390s (running OS/390 as well as Linux/390).
BEA WebLogic works out-of-the-box with Tivoli, Eclipse, DB2, MQSeries, CICS, and IMS, including transactional integration with the last four.
IBM Global Services (IGS) has a proven track record with successful WebLogic deployments (although WebLogic is obviously not their first choice). |
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发表于 2002-12-26 09:22
