BEA Blows Away Competition in Head-to-Head Review by PC Magazine
Wednesday August 20, 6:00 am ET
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 Receives Editor's Choice Award; Scores Top Ratings In Every Category
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- DID YOU KNOW? In a comprehensive head-to-head review of all leading application servers recently conducted by PC Magazine, BEA WebLogic Server(TM) 8.1 won the top Editor's Choice Award, beating out all competing offerings from vendors including IBM, JBoss, Oracle, Sun, and Microsoft. PC Magazine found BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 the top contender for any organization running Java-based software. PC Magazine summed up BEA's stand-out performance among the field of application servers on the market by awarding WebLogic Server 8.1 the highest ranks in all categories across the board, ranging from set-up and deployment, to scalability and availability, to administration and interoperability, to documentation.
"The best interface, excellent clustering and high-availability features, leading development tools for Web services built from standard Enterprise Beans, and trouble-free implementation catapult BEA WebLogic Server above the competition. In fact, it's the only product with excellent rating on every one of our Scorecard categories."
Through its exhaustive tests that evaluated over 100 specific features, PC Magazine found much to praise about BEA's application server and its mission-critical features. Specifically, PC Magazine noted BEA for being unique in that its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is optimized for Intel processors. On the management front, the editors' found BEA had "excellent" performance monitoring capabilities noting, "WebLogic's management console gives you the best depth and ease in controlling clustered servers and monitoring J2EE applications." Furthermore, BEA was recognized for succeeding "in making the building of Web services and EJBs easy," along with Web services "messaging smarts." Lastly, noting that despite BEA's "considerable clout," its platform "still plays well with others" and cites its compatibility with third-party management tools and security software.
In conclusion, PC Magazine reports that: "Any organization that chooses WebLogic will get an app server that has been battle-tested at very large installations. WebLogic doesn't skimp on either ease-of-use or the scalability that comes from advanced clustering technology. And its enhancements for Java developers make an already solid platform even better." For the complete review go to: pcmag.com . |
