2016-04-19T18:22:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle Solaris?

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
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Youssef  Hmani - PeerSpot reviewer
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2024-01-19T13:32:16Z
Jan 19, 2024

It is an expensive product. I rate the pricing a ten out of ten.

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EO
MSP
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2023-12-22T15:26:45Z
Dec 22, 2023

The product is inexpensive.

TR
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2023-11-15T11:40:13Z
Nov 15, 2023

The current setup with hardware devices involves a higher cost, but the performance is top-notch.

Ikh-Erdene Namsrai - PeerSpot reviewer
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2023-08-14T08:33:00Z
Aug 14, 2023

The solution is free to use.

MahmoudFarouk - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-11-28T13:16:46Z
Nov 28, 2022

Solaris is highly priced compared to other solutions, but since it's a niche product, this is to be expected.

YA
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2022-10-27T10:56:59Z
Oct 27, 2022

The solution is expensive and is based on an annual fee.

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JC
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2022-06-02T09:57:56Z
Jun 2, 2022

The price of Oracle Solaris could be less expensive.

Alibek Amaev - PeerSpot reviewer
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2022-04-27T12:00:00Z
Apr 27, 2022

It is a very expensive product.

CF
Real User
2021-12-29T17:37:00Z
Dec 29, 2021

There are no licensing fees but you can opt to pay for support.

PA
Real User
2021-09-23T00:29:00Z
Sep 23, 2021

Licensing for Solaris is normally on a yearly basis.

MA
MSP
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2021-08-02T15:02:37Z
Aug 2, 2021

This solution needs a license to use it.

WB
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2021-07-31T05:30:16Z
Jul 31, 2021

If you have a 20 or 30-core CPU underneath Oracle, they expect you to pay for all the cores, although the VM only has assigned a couple of them. They are very difficult license-wise and that is the reason why we went to Oracle Solaris. We were presented this option by our external advisor to prohibit extensive Oracle Linux costs. We have a lot of government organizations here in Holland leaving Oracle. It is not a bad solution, it is a perfect solution because we have used it for more than 25 years and have never lost one record. It is technically a good solution, but the licensing and sales issues, people are really annoyed about and many Dutch organizations are going over to other solutions. For example, Postgres databases or EnterpriseDB, which is a commercial version of Postgres. They are more cost-efficient if you speak to sales teams. The price is not good and needs to improve. What was surprising to us was that our Oracle databases run better with fewer resources on Linux than they did on Solaris. We found that strange because if Oracle brings out the new version of their database it is almost always firstly brought out on their own platforms, such as Solaris. You would expect that Solaris would work the best. However, in our case, it did not, there is something wrong with the resources in Solaris.

AS
Real User
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2021-05-14T10:07:42Z
May 14, 2021

Its licensing is on a yearly basis.

Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
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2021-05-05T09:34:47Z
May 5, 2021

There should be an option to install the solution for free and just pay for the support. We purchased an annual license and the price could be better.

MK
Real User
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2021-04-01T09:58:18Z
Apr 1, 2021

You don't have to pay a licensing fee. The solution is free to use. It's bound with the hardware.

GO
Real User
2020-09-27T04:10:06Z
Sep 27, 2020

This is a free product. It doesn't cost anything. What you can purchase is support. If you buy Oracle hardware it's supported free with the hardware. If you're putting it on non-Oracle hardware, that is when you buy the support license, which is also very reasonable. It is $1000 dollars per year, so it's not overly expensive. If you compare what it can do with how much Oracle charges for support, it's more or less free.

DF
Real User
2019-07-25T14:58:00Z
Jul 25, 2019

Just look into it. You'll find that this is one of the lower-cost solutions out there. There is no OS licensing cost if you use their hardware and purchase hardware maintenance.

it_user921192 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2018-08-26T17:38:00Z
Aug 26, 2018

It is more expensive, but very complete and worth enacting.

Marcel Hofstetter - PeerSpot reviewer
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2016-05-05T13:42:00Z
May 5, 2016

When buying a server from Oracle, all the software is included -- OS, virtualization and patches. There are no hidden costs. We like the long life cycle of Solaris and the SPARC servers. There's no need to replace the hardware every two to three years, and we have a life cycle of five years and more.

DA
Real User
2016-04-19T18:22:00Z
Apr 19, 2016

I can't talk about prices. Solaris is free for final users, and in the case of OEM licenses, you should visit www.oracle.com.

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