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."The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"It is a scalable solution. I recommend it for bigger companies."
"This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support."
"Oracle Solaris is great due to the fact that it actually is meant for high-end servers."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we haven't faced any issues."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"They have provided a new interface, which is great."
"The main distinguishing feature between Ubuntu and other Linux distribution is that Ubuntu has excelled at user-friendliness. It's very easy to use."
"There are many good automation features in Ubuntu."
"It's offered as open-source, and therefore does not cost anything to use."
"Stability of our systems has only improved since moving from CentOS to Ubuntu LTS."
"Ubuntu is good for machine learning. It's also a good option for any type of application, like multimedia and movies."
"The solution is always adding more features."
"The main feature of the solution is it has a command-line editor."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"When we switch over to Solaris it was not easy because we had some troubles with the performance. Solaris is from Oracle and you would expect that it would run flawlessly, but we had some issues in sizing the previous Linux environment to the Solaris environment."
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered backend management. In the 11.4 version, Oracle added a management console. It would be great if we maybe had a user management tool to go with it."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux."
"Solaris is not easy to use. It needs better GUI, UI, and configuration tools."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation."
"Ease of use and ease of deployment could still be improved in this system."
"The product must enable automation using AI."
"They can make it user-friendly. It is not totally user-friendly."
"It is an open-source tool, and it doesn't have any support. If there is an issue with the implementation of a feature, such as clustering, I am not sure how to resolve it and get support for it. The stability of the vendor packages also impacts the stability of this solution. When vendor packages are unstable, or any packages are broken, they also impact Ubuntu Linux. It is very hard to resolve an issue related to unstable vendor packages."
"An easier to configure firewall would be a good add-on."
"When you upgrade the core of this operating system, it can crash. This is the only problem I had. It needs more stable upgrades."
"The solution has a bit of a learning curve. It's not too high, however, you do need to understand the solution to deploy it and work with it effectively."
"The user interface must be more user-friendly for non-technicians."
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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