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Oracle Fusion Middleware vs Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 27, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Oracle Fusion Middleware offers significant ROI, with some organizations saving 20% by prioritizing essential security investments and assessments.
Sentiment score
6.5
JBoss EAP offers cost-effective, stable deployment with quick ROI and financial benefits, especially for larger-scale implementations.
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a good product that meets ROI expectations.
This flexibility translates to a lower total cost of ownership.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.0
Oracle Fusion Middleware support is effective but needs process efficiency, faster response for non-critical issues, and improved communication.
Sentiment score
6.6
Red Hat JBoss EAP support is professional and reliable, with good documentation and community resources but email support can be slow.
Oracle provides eight-level customer service and support.
Customer service for Oracle products, including Oracle Fusion Middleware, is rated at nine points out of ten, indicating it is quite satisfactory.
We receive support from RDS and Red Hat, and the response time and quality meet our expectations.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Oracle Fusion Middleware is highly scalable, efficient for large users, with potential complexities in virtual machine reliance and management.
Sentiment score
7.0
Red Hat JBoss EAP offers reliable scalability, efficient memory management, and smooth performance, ideal for dynamic, high-demand environments.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Oracle Fusion Middleware is praised for its stability and improved performance, despite initial deployment challenges and past minor issues.
Sentiment score
7.5
Red Hat JBoss EAP is highly rated for reliability, particularly after cloud migrations, despite occasional deployment issues in development.
Overall, Oracle Fusion Middleware's stability is good.
It is quite stable for our needs.
 

Room For Improvement

Oracle Fusion Middleware needs UI, integration, and documentation improvements, enhanced support, and cost-effectiveness with containerization and customization flexibility.
Red Hat JBoss EAP needs improved customization, integration, cost efficiency, support, and user-friendly features for modernization and reliability.
Although Oracle provides support, I need the appropriate IT team to adopt these new features.
The guides often have errors, such as web scripting issues, and can be difficult to follow.
Making it lighter and more modular would probably be beneficial.
I would like to see improved booting of applications altogether on one page to manage all data instances from one location, similar to an AWS console.
 

Setup Cost

Oracle Fusion Middleware is costly, suited for large organizations; starting small and expanding recommended due to accumulating annual costs.
Red Hat JBoss EAP offers flexible subscription pricing, seen as cost-effective compared to Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere.
Oracle Fusion Middleware is generally expensive, although I'm not directly involved with the licensing aspects.
Pricing varies from customer to customer, however, it is reasonable compared to other products in the market.
JBoss is the cheaper option out of the three when compared to WebSphere and WebLogic.
The price is somewhat high for an enterprise, however, it depends on organizational negotiations.
 

Valuable Features

Oracle Fusion Middleware offers scalable, flexible integration with advanced AI features, seamless connectivity, and compatibility within Oracle's ecosystem.
Red Hat JBoss EAP offers scalable, easy-to-manage, open-source J2EE capabilities with strong Java integration, ideal for enterprise usage.
Compared to competitors, its cost-effectiveness and Oracle's regular updates every three months are advantageous.
Oracle Fusion Middleware's base installation is ready to use, allowing for quick integration of applications and installation of necessary resources.
Built-in metrics and subsystem isolation, where every subsystem logging, messaging, or web services can be tuned independently, provide fine-grained control over performance and behavior.
It allows for simple modification of applications and provides better clustering capabilities.
JBoss is more flexible and keeps up with modern technologies, supporting newer versions of different libraries.
 

Categories and Ranking

Oracle Fusion Middleware
Ranking in Application Server
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Ap...
Ranking in Application Server
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Application Server category, the mindshare of Oracle Fusion Middleware is 5.6%, up from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is 16.8%, down from 17.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Server
 

Featured Reviews

Sai Kri - PeerSpot reviewer
Migration to a modern interface enhances AI integration and cloud capabilities
Presently, Oracle recommends migrating to Oracle Fusion since it's a hot product now. e-Business Suite may soon be sunsetted and has an outdated UI, with few upgrades. In contrast, Oracle Fusion offers modern features, such as AI, cloud-based applications, and customization options like Redwood features. Oracle Fusion AI chatbots are embedded, benefiting projects.
Srinadh  Puli - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation aids installation while management consolidation needs improvement
We are currently using Ansible for Jira installations and all the management tasks. We perform some tasks manually, however, Ansible helps in automating some of these processes I find JBoss to be lightweight and easier to manage compared to WebSphere. It allows for simple modification of…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Oracle Fusion Middleware?
The most valuable features are Oracle Unified Directory and unified identity access management.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Fusion Middleware?
Oracle Fusion Middleware is generally expensive, although I'm not directly involved with the licensing aspects.
What needs improvement with Oracle Fusion Middleware?
There could be improvements in the installation and integration parts of Oracle Fusion Middleware. The guides often have errors, such as web scripting issues, and can be difficult to follow. With m...
What do you like most about JBoss?
The product's initial setup phase is easy.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JBoss?
JBoss is the cheaper option out of the three when compared to WebSphere and WebLogic. Though I haven't done a detailed price comparison, the licensing fee is cheaper, and due to its flexibility, th...
What needs improvement with JBoss?
They are trying to make it less heavyweight since app servers often deliver a lot of functionality. Still, if we aren't leveraging them, they can be too much for certain use cases. Making it lighte...
 

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Sample Customers

Police Department of Izmir City
Tata Sky, Nissan, Swedish Board of Agriculture, Novamedia, American Product Distributors, Advanced Micro Devices, Emirates Group, E*TRADE
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