We performed a comparison between SUSE Linux Enterprise and Windows Server 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 is very easy to maintain, migrate and upgrade."
"It's easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is that there is an inbuilt HANA firewall."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is scalable."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"The operating system is efficient in terms of security."
"It is a stable platform."
"The stability of the solution is good. We have not had any issue with performance."
"This solution is very user friendly, easy to use for any system administrator, simple to deploy applications, has a wide range of applications available, great UI, and takes less technical skills to operate than some other competitors."
"We like the ease of use, stability and performance of Windows Server."
"A valuable feature of Windows Server has been the performance. We have done all the redundancy and fault tolerance things to protect our servers and, so far, so good."
"The product helps with enterprise security. It becomes more stable with frequent updates."
"It is easy to use, and its performance is good."
"The solution is user-friendly, the UI looks good, and there are new versions every year. Each new version is very different, better, and cleaner."
"It is easy to use."
"I like the views in the user interface."
"They should improve their educational portal."
"I don't like the frequency of updates, especially if they're only from the vendor."
"The interface could improve."
"We have had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE manager."
"All distributions of Linux could use some improvement."
"The quality of support offered by SUSE Linux Enterprise is not that great, making it an area where improvements are required."
"SUSE could make more APIs available."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"It is not easy to use. It can be more user-friendly to make our routine work a bit easy. It could also be cheaper."
"Sometimes we are getting very quick support, sometimes it takes time."
"I used to like the graphical interface and graphical philosophy in previous versions of Windows Server. I am not able to be as fast and efficient as I used to be using a graphical interface. However, Windows has moved to the PowerShell, it is powerful, but is still limited compared to what we do can do in Linux. Linux was built at the beginning of the command line interfaces which is why they have a very powerful command line."
"The solution is easy to use mostly but some features can be hard to understand for customers."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"I'd like to be able to separate the services offered."
"The solution is rather expensive and could be more affordable."
"We are finding some of the configurations inside the group policy not very straightforward. We had some difficulties, for example, just trying to figure out how to configure and how to block the usage of MP3 files, and so on."
SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 26 reviews while Windows Server is ranked 4th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 180 reviews. SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 8.4, while Windows Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable product compatible with multiple cloud service providers ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server writes "Easy to setup, stable and caters to my wide range of use cases but lacks user-friendly interface". SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux and Windows 10, whereas Windows Server is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, Oracle Linux and openSUSE Leap. See our SUSE Linux Enterprise vs. Windows Server report.
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