Same open-source engines. Three very different paths.

You can, but you inherit every breaking change between v7 and 10, lose the Business Central authoring tools, and run without an SLA. The Aletyx Enterprise Builds give you the 10.x engines with v7 and v8 compatibility restored, patched builds and enterprise support.

BAMOE 9.x is built on Kogito, which drops KIE Server, Business Central and the jBPM 7 process engine. Moving to it means refactoring rule assets and rewriting integrations. Aletyx upgrades Drools 7 and jBPM 7 directly, with your KIE assets and APIs preserved. No rewrite required.

Kogito was designed for new, cloud-native projects, and it is a good choice for them. It replaced KIE Server, removed Business Central and changed the jBPM 7 APIs. Moving an existing system means rewriting integration code, revalidating every rule and retraining authors.

The license costs nothing. The operation does: security patching, version qualification, performance tuning and incident response, without a contractual patch SLA. For revenue-critical workloads, self-support often costs more than a subscription, and the risk has no ceiling.

AI agents connect over MCP and run your published rules, with an audit record for every result. AI agent nodes and direct LLM calls run inside your workflows. Aletyx AI Assistant turns documents and spreadsheets into rules, generates tests and explains results.

Open source gives you the engine. It does not give you patched builds on a schedule, an SLA, or someone to call when production breaks. Aletyx ships hardened builds with direct access to the engineers who led these projects.