We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and Windows 10 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."It works well. It is very stable and very good. It is also very safe. It cannot be easily infected by viruses or attacks."
"Oracle Solaris was the preferred operating system for their customers to run their databases on and to get the best performance. It performs well with Oracle applications. Additionally, there are some features inside that are called zones which are Linux containers."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"We like that the virtualization is built in, so you don't have to spend extra money on buying licenses for a hypervisor."
"Oracle Solaris provides an ease of use."
"It stands out for its exceptional stability."
"Solaris' best feature is its stability."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"The most valuable features are the interface and the speed of switching between processes."
"It is fast, user-friendly and the GUI is interactive. The ease of operating it boosts my productivity."
"The product's initial setup phase is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"The performance is good."
"Windows 10 has many features, all of which are pretty good. There's even an upgrade now, but I still haven't upgraded it yet. I can't remember what extra features Windows 10 offers compared to the previous version, but I have been pretty comfortable with Windows 10. It's easy to use."
"I think that they have been doing a great job for a long time now when it comes to installation and user experience."
"The most valuable feature is the interface."
"If it could support other file systems, it would be better."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"Solaris is not easy to use. It needs better GUI, UI, and configuration tools."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"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 would be valuable for Windows to have an MDM feature to deploy applications remotely to it natively, such as the Jamf solution for Apple."
"The pricing could always be improved."
"The updates could be improved. Sometimes when we update, there are instances where it fails or crashes."
"Windows explorer does not support two windows systems."
"While it is already a stable product, it can be improved."
"Support could be better."
"In the next release, Windows could make the interface more user-friendly. They could add more dashboards. The performance could also maybe be better."
"It would be better if it were more stable. Security could also be better."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while Windows 10 is ranked 7th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 259 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, while Windows 10 is rated 8.2. 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 Windows 10 writes "User-friendly, easy to setup and manage domain ". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), SUSE Linux Enterprise and CentOS, whereas Windows 10 is most compared with Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap and Rocky Linux. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Windows 10 report.
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