We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and Ubuntu Linux based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"One of the main features of this solution is the ease of use."
"The ability to manipulate the zones and the files within the zones from a global OS provides us flexibility that no other virtualization can match."
"It is a scalable solution. I recommend it for bigger companies."
"Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize."
"This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support."
"I find the Linux community very valuable and the fact it is open source. So it's free and I use it without any problems."
"It's faster than Windows."
"The solution is always adding more features."
"Ubuntu is great because you get most of the packages or software you need. You get the latest updates and stuff fairly fast."
"The solution has proven to be scalable. It can scale quite well."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface."
"The most valuable feature is that it's developer-friendly and easily accessible. Like any other Linux operating system, you have access to open sources, all the necessary tooling, and anything that helps developers do their work. I'm no Linux guru, but Ubuntu offers packages that I find easy to use. There are other options for people who are very skilled with Linux, but this solution has the perfect balance of having enough technical requirements to meet your needs while still being usable. It doesn't require you to be so technically proficient that you need to recompile kernels or anything like that. It's a Linux operating system for normal people."
"It is more powerful because you have more control over it."
"The solution is pricey and can be improved by lowering the cost."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"Setting up Oracle Solaris can be complex because it requires more commands than other systems."
"Currently, there are two variants, there's SPARC and there's x86. I would have wanted a scenario where they're all just one product."
"It is not easy to use. It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. It should be easy to use. We are planning to move from Solaris to Linux because Linux is more flexible and user-friendly. Its installation should also be easier. Solaris also needs specific hardware to work well, which is another reason why we are moving to Linux. It should be more flexible in terms of hardware. It should have better integration with other hardware platforms."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
"The learning curve is quite high for non-technical users. Therefore, it's not a suitable solution for a general office environment."
"Sometimes certain tasks are challenging due to issues with the command-line interface. Users who prefer Windows may find it difficult to transition to Linux."
"The product could be easier to manage."
"It can have more security."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly, you need to know how to use the command-line interface which you might not understand."
"It could be better for working with software at a high resolution."
"At times, it can be complex when we are trying to integrate or when we are trying to set up some features."
"The installation of Ubuntu is somewhat complicated, requires better documentation."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while Ubuntu Linux is ranked 2nd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 133 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, while Ubuntu Linux is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ubuntu Linux writes "A stable and free solution that is easy to deploy and has a user-friendly GUI". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise and CentOS, whereas Ubuntu Linux is most compared with Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Windows Server and Windows 10. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Ubuntu Linux report.
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