Application Server Quality: Review Your Assumptions

Air Date: Thursday, May 15, 2008

Cost: $250

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Which application server has the fewest critical bugs? Is easiest to configure? Has the best quality overall? These questions play a key role in application development professionals' evaluations of their options for existing and future applications.

Forrester and BZ Media surveyed 617 IT professionals to answer these questions. Our survey revealed that the quality differences among major platforms, including Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and two open source options, are narrower than many application development professionals assume, and that five long-held assumptions about application server software are out of date. These are:

• Myth No. 1: There are big quality differences among application server products
• Myth No. 2: Bugs are more important than configuration errors
• Myth No. 3: Microsoft Windows Server is an inferior option to java app servers
• Myth No. 4: All except the largest vendors are doomed
• Myth No. 5: Open source support is riskier than conventional support models

The result: Application development professionals have better platform options to choose from than they might think.

Agenda

• As application platforms evolve, old reputations die hard
• Debunking five application server myths
• What it means: Our survey hints at the quality challenges of the next generation
• Recommendations: Use Four Practices To Guide Platform Reassessments and Selections

Vendors mentioned: BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat JBoss, SAP, and Sun Microsystems.

Related Research:

Application Server Quality: Review Your Assumptions

by John R. Rymer, Jeffrey S. Hammond, April 25, 2008

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