We performed a comparison between CentOS and Oracle Solaris 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."It is a scalable and cost-effective product compared to public cloud solutions."
"The user access level is most valuable. When you do administration with CentOS, the number of customizations that you can do for each user is higher than other solutions. It is very customizable."
"The most valuable feature is performance."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is free."
"CentOS' best feature is that it's the standard product for Linux, so it's well-supported."
"A valuable features of CentOS is that it's quite stable and doesn't crash often. It's also quite intuitive."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"CentOS's most valuable features are that it's cost-saving and helps to scale down your usage."
"The product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"Solaris' best feature is its stability."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"Oracle Solaris provides an ease of use."
"It works well. It is very stable and very good. It is also very safe. It cannot be easily infected by viruses or attacks."
"We like that the virtualization is built in, so you don't have to spend extra money on buying licenses for a hypervisor."
"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."
"CentOS could be improved with more user-friendly monitoring."
"Integration with Open Stack could be improved."
"It would be useful if reporting were included as part of the basic license."
"In terms of commands, it's all CLI and there isn't any GUI which can make it challenging to use for some people."
"The solution could be more scalable."
"GUI could be merged and expansion simplified."
"There is no notification before updates are applied to the solution, which occasionally means that new functionality isn't compatible with how the product is currently being used, and causes issues."
"The server system is a little bit tough to manage."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"The tool is quite complex and difficult for anyone trying to use or study it."
"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."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"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."
"It is not easy to use. It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. It should be easy to use. We are planning to move from Solaris to Linux because Linux is more flexible and user-friendly. Its installation should also be easier. Solaris also needs specific hardware to work well, which is another reason why we are moving to Linux. It should be more flexible in terms of hardware. It should have better integration with other hardware platforms."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
CentOS is ranked 5th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 63 reviews while Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 47 reviews. CentOS is rated 8.2, while Oracle Solaris is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of CentOS writes "Allows you to securely store data, and command prompts make it simple to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". CentOS is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows Server and Windows 10, whereas Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise. See our CentOS vs. Oracle Solaris report.
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