IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"Websphere is good but needs more thorough patch testing for interoperability"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Solid product, scales well. It has been our go to app engine for decades What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Patch policy seems to be created with insuffiicient thought to impact of other ibm products What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving and how is that benefiting you? Many - too many to list

"Webshere is for business critical apps"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? We are using WAS for a while and we are seeing good perf. We would like to upgrade to 9/9.5 to get better performance. What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? OpenJDK is diff from OpenJ9 and it affects not to get OpenJDK features fully & support. Hope it will be as one product in the future What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & ...

"Scalable application server"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? good performance to scale on cloud environemnt What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? loggin system could be better to throubleshoting What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving and how is that benefiting you? Own business application

"explore noving WebSphere ND to cloud using Kebernetes and docker"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? I like to see a lot of development effort by IBM to use Kebernetes, Docker, containers to move the apps to hybrid cloud. As the solution to the legacy systems and legacy data, this is a solution. I'd like to see in the future. -Jack Zhu What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? nothing. Watson may be far away from our daily life. But this is beginning of this ...

"WAS does what we need"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? WebSphere Application Server allows us to run our enterprise Java applications with high availability over hundreds of production domains for the nation's healthcare companies. What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? APC hangs are not easy to identify or diagnose What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving and how is ...

"Seamless Integration"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Websphere app server doesn't have issues. It is obscure in our tech stack. What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? There is nothing that I dislike about Websphere. What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving and how is that benefiting you? Banking transactions. It is able to handle our loads.

"hosting websphere"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? I like the support online when I have an issue. What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? not intuative when I first start to set it up What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving and how is that benefiting you? migration to websphere from other platforms

"I have been using Webshpere for the last 12 years"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Robust and production ready. Integrates well with other IBM products. What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Lot of plug ins takes for ever to start up. What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving and how is that benefiting you? Enterprise Java application development and deployment.

"WAS Performance"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Ease of use, performance gains from previous versions (i.e v6 to v9) What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Lack of support for WAS 8, cost of upgrades and maintenace. Recommendations to others considering IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty): n/a What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving ...

"Good product, but too heavy to move to containers"

What do you like best about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? Elaborate admin console to manage the cell. What do you dislike about IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty)? its heavy footprint ,roadmap, non-cloud-native nature What problems is IBM WebSphere Hybrid Edition (Application Server & Liberty) solving and how is that benefiting you? its our runtime environment/middleware for JAVA applications