Analyst Proof Points
Virtuant Study: JBoss EAP vs. Websphere: A TCO Analysis, October, 2011
A benchmarking report to provide IT decision makers with a fair comparison of the actual Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of two of the most popular application server products on the market today: IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment and Red Hat's open source offering, JBoss™ Enterprise Application Platform.
This report summarizes Virtuant's findings and presents their analysis in three sections.
- Discusses reasons to use these solutions
- Offers technical comparisons between the two solutions
- Draws conclusions about the TCO based on the detailed results of the technical analysis
IDC Report: The Business Value of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
IDC studied the business value of adopting JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform. Benefits realized by the customers in this study include:
- 569% return on investment (ROI) in under 6 months.
- 51% more applications per year.
- Additional $3.5 million in annual revenue.
"The configurability of JBoss makes it a higher value option for developers to use to speed up and improve the application lifecycle."
Gartner Predicts 2012: Cloud and In-Memory Drive Innovation in Application Platforms
While deployments of mainstream applications are increasingly moving toward open-source products, innovations in application platform technologies are driven by high-productivity requirements and the emerging cloud and in-memory computing paradigms. In this research, Gartner discusses the short-term and medium-term implications of these trends.
IDC Report: JBoss Operations Network: Measuring Business Impact and ROI
IDC conducted in-depth interviews with staff members of IT organizations that have deployed JBoss Operations Network to manage their JBoss Enterprise Middleware environments. Benefits realized by these customers include:
- 634% ROI with payback in under 6 months.
- Savings of 83% of top-line revenue lost from downtime.
- Twice the number of JBoss servers managed per system administrator—from 38 to 84.
"In today's economic climate, IT organizations are looking for ways to achieve cost
savings in the short term. Based on this study, the IT organizations achieved this goal by realizing an average payback period for JBoss Operations Network of a short 5.3 months—
recovering their initial investments well within the first half-year of deployment."
JBoss Enterprise Middleware Customer Support Study, October, 2012
Organizations of all sizes have dramatically lowered the cost of their application environments with enterprise open source solutions like JBoss® Enterprise Middleware.
EXPERT SUPPORT
Professional, expert support services magnify the benefits of the open source technology system:
- Faster problem resolution
- Innovative consultation
- Less corporate risk
- More individualized services
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