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."This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we haven't faced any issues."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"Its networking has helped me combine the power of a neural network with the benefits of virtualization to improve the AI's performance."
"It works well. It is very stable and very good. It is also very safe. It cannot be easily infected by viruses or attacks."
"It is a scalable solution. I recommend it for bigger companies."
"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."
"One of the main features of this solution is the ease of use."
"The solution provides good security."
"Ubuntu has a good interface, it is easier to use than other distribution such as CentOS or Red Hat. It's suitable for beginners who want to start learning Linux. It has a simple interface and it's easy to use."
"Stability of our systems has only improved since moving from CentOS to Ubuntu LTS."
"Some of the main features of this solution are it is less prone to viruses since most viruses are written for Microsoft software, and it is easy to use."
"Ubuntu doesn't use a lot of resources. So I think that's pretty cool. It's totally like Microsoft."
"One of the most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux is how easy it is to manage. We have some monitoring solutions, so those applications are running on top of Ubuntu. So far, the applications are running in a way that's very stable, compared to other Linux versions and flavors. In terms of redundancy and the command line, it's very easy to manage."
"It is more powerful because you have more control over it."
"I like its computation speed compared to Windows and other similar features."
"Setting up Oracle Solaris can be complex because it requires more commands than other systems."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors."
"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."
"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."
"I believe before Oracle was using Oracle Linux, they were using Oracle Solaris for their customers who are using Oracle databases. This was because it was more optimized for the hardware built for it. It has good performance for the database only. However, if you take it out of the Oracle applications, it will not do well compared to other operating systems, such as Linux or even Windows can have better performance."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"The solution is pricey and can be improved by lowering the cost."
"I think Ubuntu is not that secure."
"It should be easier and lighter. I am more experienced in working with CentOS, and I find CentOS much easier to use than Ubuntu. Ubuntu is more complicated than CentOS. Ubuntu is also heavier for hardware than centOS."
"For a broken Ubuntu system, you must do a new installation. There is no existing repair option."
"They can keep improving the solution's ability to be adopted by users by adding features, such as better tutorials and integration into the system."
"There aren't enough experts in my country to be able to help troubleshoot or to post answers to problems."
"You have to do a lot of configurations yourself. It is not very user friendly."
"The repository needs to be kept up to date all of the time."
"Ubuntu is putting great efforts into making their platform a great hosting platform for Kubernetes and other related tools, but they are not addressing the challenges with what it takes to run Ubuntu in a large Windows-based environment."
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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