We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and SUSE Linux Enterprise 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."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"Oracle Solaris provides an ease of use."
"Its networking has helped me combine the power of a neural network with the benefits of virtualization to improve the AI's performance."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"Solaris is scalable because they have their own file system, like CFS."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is scalable."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"Out-of-the-box SLES supported all of our HBAs and hardware specific components."
"From a functionality perspective, the suite is quite rich. We like that."
"It's easy to set up."
"I have not experienced any issues with this operating system."
"The tool’s idempotency ensures all configurations are in place at all times."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"The tool is quite complex and difficult for anyone trying to use or study it."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"Setting up Oracle Solaris can be complex because it requires more commands than other systems."
"The primary drawback with this product is the lack of version updates."
"Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux."
"I have not been overly impressed with their technical support."
"The platform doesn't support certain APMs."
"In the next release it would be nice to see more integration and better automation of processses."
"The interface could improve."
"The product must improve its UI."
"We previously had trouble integrating Autodesk with the SUSE Manager, but the issue was resolved."
"SUSE could make more APIs available."
"The only stability issues that I can recall encountering with SUSE would be with KDE. However, that is limited to just the desktop environment as I have not had stability issues with most server functions."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 26 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, while SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 8.4. 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 SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable product compatible with multiple cloud service providers ". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10 and CentOS, whereas SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, openSUSE Leap, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux and Windows Server. See our Oracle Solaris vs. SUSE Linux Enterprise report.
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