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WAS CE is built using an open source product, Apache Geronimo. Like Apache Geronimo, WAS CE is free to download and use, and you can IBM and Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server family of products.
Bundled IBM JDK: or you can download WAS CE without a JDK. You can also use the Sun JDK. (More here) NOTE: Geronimo has different binaries for Windows & Unix (including Linux & Mac OS X), but does not make an explicit OS support statement. You can try using it with any operating system you like, if it doesn't work, try the Geronimo mailing list for help. Or if you have paid for support, see which operating systems your support provider supports.
JDBC Drivers: Bundles JDBC drivers for Oracle, DB2, MySQL and MS SQL Server to give you broad DB support (More here)
IBM documentation: WAS CE resources on developerWorks As you may be able to tell, there are few major technical differences between Geronimo & WAS CE. We made the decision early on to stay as close to Geronimo as we could and still be able to give IBM customers what they expect out of an IBM product. The general WAS CE vision is to do as much work as we can out in the Geronimo community. In doing this, Geronimo users and WAS CE users get to benefit from the new features etc. (like we did with the
Eclipse plug-in).
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