Test Center Tracker: BEA WebLogic VE proves half-baked

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Jan 14, 20081 min

Bold yet unmanageable: Based on his hands-on testing of WebLogic VE (Virtual Edition), Test Center Contributor Andrew Binstock concludes that it's pretty darn innovative. The appliance leverages server virtualization by delivering an enterprise-ready application server in a preconfigured stack. Less impressive, however, is the system's lack of central management. The system's still in beta, though, so BEA has ti

Bold yet unmanageable: Based on his hands-on testing of WebLogic VE (Virtual Edition), Test Center Contributor Andrew Binstock concludes that it’s pretty darn innovative. The appliance leverages server virtualization by delivering an enterprise-ready application server in a preconfigured stack. Less impressive, however, is the system’s lack of central management. The system’s still in beta, though, so BEA has time to spruce it up.

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