Pricing on premise
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| Open Liberty | WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core |
WebSphere Application Server Express |
WebSphere Application Server |
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment |
WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition |
WebSphere Application Server for z/OS |
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| Optimized for: | Open Source | Smaller scale deployments of dynamic web applications. This version of the Liberty profile delivers the Web Profile option. It delivers a reduced-cost, ready-to-go solution. |
Developers or business leaders at small and midsize businesses who need an easier, reduced-cost, ready-to-go solution for smaller scale deployments of dynamic web applications |
Developers or business leaders at medium to large businesses who need a scalable foundation to build, run and manage dynamic web applications on a single server or in moderately sized deployment environments |
Developers or business leaders who need advanced management, scalability, automated performance optimization and near-continuous availability for their most mission-critical applications |
Developers or business leaders who need advanced management, scalability, automated performance optimization and near-continuous availability for their most mission-critical applications; optimized to run in server virtualization environments |
Developers or business leaders at enterprises that require z/OS qualities of service to achieve optimized performance and near-continuous availability for their most mission-critical applications |
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| Liberty | Classic/Full Profile | Liberty | Classic/Full Profile | Liberty | Classic/Full Profile | Liberty | Classic/Full Profile | Liberty | Classic/Full Profile | |||
| Programming Models, Standards and Development |
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| Java EE 7 Full Platform compliance | yes | Statement of Direction | yes | Statement of Direction | yes | Statement of Direction | yes | Statement of Direction | yes | Statement of Direction | ||
| Java EE 7 Web Profile compliance | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| Java EE 6 Full Platform compliance | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||
| Java EE 6 Web Profile compliance | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Java Platform, Standard Edition 8 (Java SE 8) | yes | yes | Statement of Direction | yes | Statement of Direction | Statement of Direction | Statement of Direction | yes | Statement of Direction | |||
| Java Platform, Standard Edition 6, and 7 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Web 2.0 and Mobile | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| OSGi Applications | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Dynamic caching | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| System Programming Interface (SPI) for extensibility SPI (allows 3rd party extensions to Liberty features) |
yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| Fidelity from Liberty to full WAS (Limited to Java EE6 programming models) |
yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| WebSphere App Server Developer Tools (Java EE, osgi, web 2.0, mobile) |
yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Rational Application Developer (complete programming model) |
yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Integration with z/OS services (WOLA and z/OS Connect) | yes | yes | ||||||||||
| Messaging and web services | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Service Component Architecture (SCA) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||
| Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| WebRTC programming model support | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |||||||
| Administration, High Availability and Performance |
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| Optional provisioning & management through ND job manager |
yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Collective Controller Membership and Management | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| Intelligent Management (Dynamic cluster, Health Policy) |
yes (A5) | yes | yes (A5) | yes | yes (A5) | yes | ||||||
| Intelligent Management (Edition Management) | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||
| Zip or Archive install | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| Managed clustering | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| IHS routing and Load balancing (# of servers allowed) |
2 (A1) | 2 (A1) | 2 (A1) | 25 (A1) | 25 (A1) | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | |
| WebSphere Extreme Scale (WXS) entitlement (PVUs dependent on joint or separate installs) - Separate: WAS PVUs plus WXS PVUs cannot exceed entitled WAS PVUs - Joint: WXS and WAS can share up to the entitled WAS PVUs |
yes (A2) | yes (A2) | yes (A3) | yes (A3) | yes (A3) | yes (A3) | yes (A4) | yes (A4) | ||||
| Edge-of-network services | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||
| Security | ||||||||||||
| Secure Engineering Accreditation OTT-PS | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Oauth, OpenID and Open ID Connect | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Role-based and Fine grained Administrative security | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| Kerberos Authentication | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Web Post Binding Profile |
yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| SPNEGO support for single sign-on | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| DB2 Trusted Context for Identity propagation | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||||||
| Encryption Standard FIPS 140-2, 800-131a | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
