Getting Started with WebSphere Application Server
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24 <strong>Getting</strong> <strong>Started</strong> <strong>with</strong> <strong>WebSphere</strong> <strong>Application</strong> <strong>Server</strong> Community Edition<br />
1.3 Target users of Community Edition<br />
Community Edition is ideal for:<br />
• <strong>Application</strong> developers who require an open standards Java EE application server<br />
for building Java EE applications, and who want to focus on the core business<br />
applications based on pre-integrated services<br />
• System administrators who require a standard and flexible environment for<br />
application administration and scalability<br />
• Independent software vendors(ISVs) and other types of solution providers who<br />
want to bundle or embed a full-featured Java EE application server as part of their<br />
solutions<br />
• Small and medium-sized companies who need an entry-level Java EE application<br />
server <strong>with</strong> world-class support for their applications and operations<br />
• Departments of companies who need a production Java EE environment <strong>with</strong>out<br />
budget approval<br />
• Java EE hobbyists and cutting-edge technology enthusiasts who want to<br />
leverage and experience open source technologies<br />
• Students, teachers, and other academic users who want a highly versatile Java EE<br />
application server for teaching, courseware, projects and research<br />
1.4 User assistance and technical support<br />
Community Edition enables you to quickly develop applications and grow them<br />
incrementally, and provides basic security, easy administration, and different deployment<br />
alternatives. As you will see in Chapter 2, Community Edition can run on either 32-bit or<br />
64-bit architecture <strong>with</strong> Linux® or Windows operating systems; it is also available on<br />
Solaris and AIX® systems. Community Edition can run on both Sun Java run time and IBM<br />
Java run time, where the latter one has significant advantages in terms of performance.<br />
Along <strong>with</strong> a Community Edition installation package, IBM offers dozens of out-of-the-box<br />
sample applications for practice and evaluation.<br />
If you have technical questions about Community Edition, you can post your questions in<br />
the Community Edition forum at<br />
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=541<br />
This free forum is monitored by Community Edition experts from IBM, though it is the<br />
community who provides most of the answers on a voluntary basis.<br />
IBM also gives users the choice to purchase three tiered (entry, enhanced and elite support<br />
tiers), fee-based support as an annual subscription, priced per server. For more details,<br />
visit<br />
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/community/detail/table.html
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