Development Tool - Main Requirements

No one is going to be able to answer that question except you. Some things I would consider would be price, familiarity with the tool and the corresponding language(s), what is standard in the industry, what types of applications will be developed,support costs, hardware and OS requirements, expected update frequency, vendor financial stability, etc. Even if these are the exact things you would look for in a development tool, we would probably weight them differently.

One thing to think about is that Websphere is not really a development tool; it's an application server. It reminds me of one of those questions "which doesn't belong: apple, orange, pear, cucumber".

Good luck.

Jay Eckles
www.jayeckles.com