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 backup capabilities are quite good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"We like that the virtualization is built in, so you don't have to spend extra money on buying licenses for a hypervisor."
"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."
"We use the solution as an internal operating system."
"It is fast and easy to install. It also supports containers and all kinds of libraries. I can do almost everything with it."
"I like the flexibility."
"Ubuntu is great because you get most of the packages or software you need. You get the latest updates and stuff fairly fast."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface."
"I find the Linux community very valuable and the fact it is open source. So it's free and I use it without any problems."
"The solution is easy to use"
"The most valuable features are the pseudo-terminal and it is the most open-sourced operating system that can be used."
"It is a widely used and stable solution. Community members can offer support and technical guidance."
"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."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation."
"Solaris is not easy to use. It needs better GUI, UI, and configuration tools."
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"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."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"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."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"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."
"Ubuntu could be improved with more container integration and orchestration of those containers. We are looking to have more cloud-based solutions, like Docker, and container-based solutions, or Kubernetes-based solutions integrated with Ubuntu. Instead of going for VMs, we would like to have more container-based solutions on top of Ubuntu."
"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 user interface could be improved."
"I find the solution could be easier to use, more flexible, user-friendly, and have a better UI."
"There is a large open-sourced community that is helpful. I had a lot of problems when starting out and there was plenty of assistance throughout the community. Since everyone is helping for free the support could be better."
"The product must enable automation using AI."
"Developing more applications for businesses could work better, but that is not part of the OS piece. Let the developers work on other apps, therefore the needs for consuming less memory do not affect the performance of this OS version."
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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