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 handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"It stands out for its exceptional stability."
"Its networking has helped me combine the power of a neural network with the benefits of virtualization to improve the AI's performance."
"Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"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."
"One of the main features of this solution is the ease of use."
"The solution is stable, fast and free."
"I think Ubuntu's main strength, as opposed to using the other Linuxes, has been its ability to encourage user feedback."
"Some of the highlighted valuable features are that is based on Linux, configurable, functional, and robust."
"It is stable and quite easy to use as compared to other Linux operating systems. They have created a system like Windows. It is simple and without any problems."
"There are many features I like about this solution, but one that stands out, is that it allows me to easily install new packages and to have recent packages available."
"I feel the graphical interface to be very user friendly, as is first time installation."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that Linux has cost-effective licenses."
"The solution is very stable, it does not need to restart to maintain stability."
"Currently, there are two variants, there's SPARC and there's x86. I would have wanted a scenario where they're all just one product."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"The primary drawback with this product is the lack of version updates."
"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."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"Ubuntu could add some additional hardware support."
"The Linux operating system is very traditional, and you need to use specific commands. I think that it can be improved to be more handy."
"At times, it can be complex when we are trying to integrate or when we are trying to set up some features."
"We use and have previously used Windows 10 which is a lot better."
"The product could be easier to manage."
"Similar to Windows 10, I would like the ability to manage it on Azure or integrate it with Azure."
"The solution could improve by allowing more integration."
"The solution has a bit of a learning curve. It's not too high, however, you do need to understand the solution to deploy it and work with it effectively."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 47 reviews while Ubuntu Linux is ranked 2nd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 133 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.8, 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 "Open-source with a great support community and seamless updating". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, CentOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise, 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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