Interviews of WebSphere architects

Recently we have made a set of informal videos interviewing various WebSphere architects about the numerous advantages of WebSphere Application Server in the areas of developer and management efficiency, application innovation, and performance. These are focused on the difference between WebSphere and JBoss but also cover in detail many of the WebSphere Application Server strategical focus areas.

There are two playlists which can help you view all the videos. This playlist of WebSphere vs JBoss Developer Discussions walks through the specifics around how development is getting better and easier. This playlist covers WebSphere vs JBoss Operations discussions and covers more of the systems management side of the product.

Here is one of the videos (you'll note I didn't include one of mine ;-) ) on developer efficiency.

IBM again leads Oracle (and everyone else) on SPECjAppServer2004 performance and cost

I recently had someone email me on a performance topic and they referenced WebSphere Application Server's SPECjAppServer leadership. They actually didn't know that IBM regained total leadership in this benchmark late last year. Maybe the fun of the holidays didn't allow folks to notice? I wanted to post this update, so if other folks missed it they would notice.

In these times of tough economic conditions, it's really important to focus on total cost of ownership and ways to improve efficiency. IBM's continuous leadership in performance proves we care about performance as it relates to end to end J2EE enterprise computing scenarios. This increased performance means you can host more workload and applications on the same resources that you used before. Our performance engineers are continuously improving performance of your applications and we use SPECjAppServer to demonstrate those improvements.

Sometimes people ask me how SPECjAppServer matters to them. It's this continuously increasing performance that matters to them. Originally SPECjAppServer helped the J2EE programming model transition from a programming model to a capable enterprise ready programming model (stressing basic performance and scalability). Now, SPECjAppServer leadership helps customers know the middleware they are buying from IBM is helping them improve their efficiency.

This view is a technology view (leadership at 22634.13 JOPS), however it has business impacts as well. That result was achieved at roughly one half of the cost of our closest competitor. That just acquisition cost. If you consider the power savings on top of that you're not only being more green, but saving green.

Again, great work by the WebSphere Application Server performance team!

Disclaimer: SPEC is a non-profit organization that establishes, maintains and endorses standardized benchmarks to measure the performance of the newest generation of high-performance computers. Its membership comprises leading computer hardware and software vendors, universities, and research organizations worldwide. For complete details on benchmark results and the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, please see www.spec.org. Competitive claims reflect results published on www.spec.org as of January 23, 2009 when comparing SPECjAppServer2004 Total JOPS on all published results.