WebLogic Server 9.0 vs. WebSphere 6.0

Eric Stahl's Blog | August 03, 2005  03:43 PM | Comments (0)

BEA just published a new SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark that shows WebLogic Server 9.0 processing the same number of transactions as IBM WebSphere 6.0 with half of the hardware.

The new BEA results show WebLogic Server 9.0 and JRockit 5.0 running on five HP servers, each running RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1 on 2 Intel Xeon processors (a total of 10 CPUs). The resulting throughput was 1,374.11 JOPS.

IBM's best result shows WebSphere 6.0 and Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2) running on five IBM servers, each running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 on 4 Intel Xeon processors (a total of 20 CPUs). The resulting throughput was 1,343.47 JOPS.

This demonstrates how WebLogic lowers cost and complexity by needing half of the hardware, half of the software licenses, half of the corresponding product support costs and half as many moving parts to manage for customers who put these products into production.

See the SPEC site for the performance results and details on configurations from from BEA, IBM and Sun.

This is another proof point that shows that even though WebLogic licenses cost more per CPU than WebSphere, it costs significantly less when customers put the whole system together and put it under load.

See the Relative Cost of Application Servers to see other areas where WebLogic reduces project cost, time and risk.

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