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Hard to compare Websphere and Tomcat
Posted by: peter lin on December 12, 2007 in response to Message #243668

I've used both Tomcat and Websphere extensively over the years and honestly, I'd rather use Tomcat any day. 
WebSphere is a royal pain to use. Once it's all setup and the application is fully tested, WebSphere stays relatively stable.
I relatively because I've seen it do all sorts of odd stuff.

Using RAD + WebSphere makes software development painfully slow and the minimum system memory requirement is 2GB. 
Realistically, I would recommend a system with 3-4Gb of memory for daily websphere development. 
I've also used BEA Weblogic over the years. From my experience, I'd much rather use Tomcat because I can fix a problem myself. 
I don't need to wait 3-6 months for the company to fix it. 
Even if you're a huge telco with a full enterprise license, it can still take months to get a patch. 
This is from first hand experience. 
I'm sure anyone that has filed a trouble ticket with either IBM or BEA has seen similar response times.

If I have 3 months of development left on a project, can I really afford to wait 6 months for a patch from some company? 
What good is that expensive support? When I found issues in Tomcat, I patched it myself and submitted to bugzilla or jira.

frankly I don't buy the enterprise excuse. 
if it's company policy to only use supported software with "enterprise level support", 
then by all means pay for it. To equate software quality with paid support just doesn't make sense to me.

my bias 2 bits.

peter