

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Microsoft System Center compete in enterprise solutions. Microsoft System Center has the upper hand with its advanced functionality and comprehensive management features.
Features: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform focuses on middleware capabilities with strong application development, effective clustering, and load balancing. Microsoft System Center offers automation, third-party management pack integration, and extensive system monitoring.
Room for Improvement: JBoss could enhance integration with other tools, improve support documentation, and streamline its user interface. Microsoft System Center could simplify initial setup, enhance third-party support beyond Microsoft products, and improve its scalability for large deployments.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: JBoss provides straightforward deployment and good customer support but requires expertise for optimal use. Microsoft System Center offers robust deployment support and strong customer service but involves more complexity initially.
Pricing and ROI: JBoss is cost-effective with favorable pricing and good ROI, appealing to smaller enterprises. Microsoft System Center has higher initial costs but potentially offers greater ROI for larger organizations through its expansive features.
I have seen a return on investment with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform where fast deployment has led to fast saving of time and cost.
The customer support for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is very responsive and proactive.
As a partner, I cannot create a ticket directly; I have to involve the end user's email to create one, so using the Software Assurance ID to create a ticket directly is not possible, making it very challenging for me.
It has been able to handle my organization's growth efficiently.
Microsoft System Center is scalable, allowing integration even if I have different sites.
I have not noticed any downtime.
The stability issues depend on how the applications are developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
If application performance monitoring tools were already part of the management console at runtime, it would be very helpful.
The customer needed to implement on a server with 32 processes, and the price from a local provider was approximately $64,000.
This approach makes it easier to develop, deploy, and administer applications.
The disadvantage of Microsoft System Center is related to the many integrated services; if one service is failing, then all features will be affected.
The price from a local provider was approximately $64,000.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is that it is a cost-effective, subscription-based, open-source, Java EE-based application server, so the price is very cost-effective and affordable.
My thoughts on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform's pricing is that from a subscription model perspective, the price was very reasonable compared to other application servers and other commercial products.
It offers a number of good integration options and many facilities that are advantageous compared to Tomcat.
I also appreciate that it supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability, clustering, distributed caching, messaging, and many more.
The startup time was much faster compared to other application servers, and debugging was reliable.
In Microsoft System Center, all the features are integrated already, whereas in ManageEngine, you have to license each feature individually to access those features.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| JBoss Enterprise Application Platform | 4.8% |
| Microsoft System Center | 2.3% |
| Other | 92.9% |


| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 18 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 7 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 4 |
| Large Enterprise | 10 |
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