Oracle Solaris Other Advice
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Daren Ferreira
Infrastructure as a Service Manager
I would suggest that you test it in your environment. Start small and see what it can do, and reach out to me for any help. You'll see it is a solid solution that more people should adopt.
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I'd advise potential users to use it. They have declared a long support life, and Solaris it will be supported until 2034. Although you don't see a future roadmap, they have declared support for the existing Solaris until 2034, which is a very long way to go. If you get it now, you know that you will still be able to use it for ten years.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. It offers great flexibility.
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Zandile Mushi
Network Administrator at Mzansi Security and Fire
It would be hard for a newbie with no experience with Oracle to learn about the product.
I recommended the tool to those who plan to use it.
At a point when I was looking to design my own database and make it look similar to Oracle Solaris, I realized that it could get expensive.
I rate the overall tool a ten out of ten.
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reviewer1632822
Service Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would prefer Linux then Oracle Solaris because it is more open. If you are in a commercial environment, then use a commercial Linux version, not a free version. We have seven customers using Red Hat, the support is very good, and there are hardly any issues.
I will not recommend Solaris because of the attitude of Oracle, what we have experienced in the database, how they handle licenses, and legally. They are not a company that is fair and are very aggressively trying to get money. However, they provide a solid solution.
I rate Oracle Solaris a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1301145
CEO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
In our company, we don't use Oracle Solaris. As a person, I was employed as a Solaris System Administrator. I'm just a consultant. We don't use Oracle Solaris, because we're not big enough to use the solution ourselves.
Overall, I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
I would highly recommend Oracle Solaris. It's a stable operating system and it's been around for a long time. If you're planning to have an Oracle Database, the best operating system for the Oracle Database is Oracle Solaris.
If anybody is implementing a new solution or a new environment and thinks of putting in Oracle Database, the first option would be Oracle Solaris, then they can look at other OSs like Windows and Linux.
View full review »I recommend using this solution. I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
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Yemisrach Asnake
IT Project Manager at Awash International Bank
I give the solution a nine out of ten.
Unlike most Oracle products which are complex to set up this solution can be deployed with the help of the Oracle documentation for a UAT or IST integration case environment purpose.
There are over 60 people using the solution in our organization.
If cost is not an issue I recommend the solution.
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reviewer2088135
Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The platform is highly efficient and stable, offering a straightforward toolset compared to others. One notable advantage is its simplicity; where other operating systems might require four or five commands, Solaris typically accomplishes the same task with just one command. I would rat it nine out of ten.
View full review »I would definitely recommend Solaris as an operating system to hold huge databases. I would give Solaris a rating of seven out of ten.
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Shafiq Khan
Senior Manager IT Operations at NRSP microfinance Bank
We are just customers and end-users. We don't have a business relationship with Oracle.
I would 100% recommend the solution to other organizations. The solution has been quite reliable and secure. For an enterprise environment, it's a great product.
I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten.
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Edgar Orare
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data
I rate Oracle Solaris a nine out of ten. I advise others to ensure they can support the setup for the foreseeable future.
View full review »I recommend it to my customers. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Jay-Chandran
Group manager at Computer center
In my observation in the last two to three years, the support for Oracle Solaris has dropped. Oracle is more moving into Linux platforms.
I rate Oracle Solaris a six out of seven.
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Helmut Rainel
Consultant at Hollomey Consultant GmbH
I rate Oracle Solaris a ten out of ten.
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Ayman Said
Deputy IT Manager at ICAPP (Americana Group)
I would recommend this solution. It is stable and safe but not easy to use. It is very good for Oracle applications.
I would rate Oracle Solaris a seven out of ten.
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Diego E. Aguirre
Oracle ACE - Specialized in Systems Technologies at Telecom Argentina
I always recommend Solaris because of its robustness, high availability, scalability, virtualization, excellent support, security and very good hardware.
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reviewer1346454
KYC Quality Assurance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The suitability of this product depends on the use case. There are other products that are more flexible and better to use these days. It was stable, so I would recommend it for some cases but more often than not, we wouldn't use it anymore.
I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
View full review »I recommend Oracle solutions such as T5 Super-Cluster, T5-8 and the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system, as they are highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
I rate Solaris 10 a 7.
View full review »This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support. Oracle Solaris is a good product, but it is expensive.
Therefore, I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.
View full review »Solaris 11 OS is as good as Linux. In fact, some of their features are way more advanced than Linux. But you need to self-learn, get to the comfort level of using it and push others to do so, especially the platform consumers.
View full review »Use deployment tools for automation and avoid doing everything manually. Deployment tools help to avoid errors and create a standardized environment.
View full review »I would give Solaris a rating of eight out of ten.
View full review »I rate Oracle Solaris a ten out of ten.
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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
If you downloaded Oracle databases you could use this solution but there are better solutions, such as Oracle Linux. Linux has proven to be better performance than Solaris in many aspects. If you approach Oracle and ask them, which one you should use Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux, they would say Oracle Linux.
I rate Oracle Solaris a seven out of ten.
When you're doing a TCO analysis, you have to take all factors into consideration, such as migration cost, training cost, back line support cost, professional service cost and to the entire solution. A lot of the vendors just wanted us to pinpoint one area without thinking about the wider-range impact. It makes a big difference.
View full review »Overall, I would rate it eight out of ten.
View full review »We are going to continue using the solution in the future and I recommend it to others.
I rate Oracle Solaris a seven out of ten.
View full review »Before implementing Oracle Solaris, my best recommendation would be to know all its available features for making the right choices. I have seen several implemented solutions which are working, but they could have implemented better techniques and methods if more appropriate features had been chosen for the specific project.
View full review »Even though nowadays, I am using RedHat Linux, in my environment, I miss Solaris a lot.
Trust Solaris. It is still better than Linux in many ways.
View full review »Implementing this product is a no brainer if you are using Oracle databases on SPARC.
View full review »It's scalable. It's stable. You have service for it. If you have a problem, you call and there will be somebody coming and helping you with it.
I can't live without Solaris, because that’s my job.
Solaris has a big customer base, compared to others; at least that's what I feel. I'm mostly focusing on Linux as its competitor. I see that you have servers there; you can scale much higher than on Linux. Linux is more in the field where you do multiple small systems, and I'm at the end of big-use systems.
View full review »Have an open mind when looking at a new OS. Many things have changed in the last five years, you can not compare Solaris 11 to older versions.
View full review »It’s a very good product to use. You are going to love this OS.
I still love Solaris; for me, it’s always been the best.
View full review »Regarding selecting a vendor, we are public sector, so we need to have a vendor that has been an industry leader for a long period of time. That's so we can have, in the next decade or two, have reliability.
I think I'd follow the majority of the customers and learn what the vendor has been doing, but not only in the past, what they intend to do in the future as well.
I base my rating of nine out of 10 on the technical solution, and the customer relationship, and the technical support.
To me, the perfect vendor provides reliability, that's the big one. And security. That is the other big one.
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manager278619
Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I would rate Solaris eight out of 10.
View full review »Nowadays, I don't think Solaris has a lot of advantages over less expensive options. I do love ZFS and have found it to be very stable. I don't have much experience with it in other distributions but some early attempts with fuse were not stable. That was a while ago, so I bet you can get a stable release of something with ZFS.
View full review »I don't know if I would recommend this solution. It depends on what and how they want to implement it. I definitely would not advise against it, but a lot depends on, not only on the applications, but also on the skill set that they have. If they have people who know Linux and no one who knows Solaris, go with Linux. I have seen system administrators who don't even know that Unix types other than Linux exist. So, asking them to do something on a different Unix operating system, be it Solaris or HP-UX or a long list of others, that's useless. They know only Linux.
That's probably more of a limiting factor than the application. I can run almost any application on Solaris or on Linux, although not with the same efficiency; that's a different story. Most of the time, Solaris will outperform Linux, but not always. Linux is more flexible, so if I need to make adjustments, they are typically easier to do on Linux.
However, the main thing when advising other companies what to do is: What kind of skill set do you have? What kind of skill set can you have? It's much easier to find people who at least claim to be Linux system administrators than Solaris. You almost have to be a dinosaur.
View full review »As I've mentioned, it’s hard for me to make any recommendations as I have been working with RedHat for a long time now.
View full review »Again, with any project, know the problem; know your available options. There might be multiple options in different products available from the same vendor. Decide which ones together will work best for you, and it will at times definitely not be the one that is being proposed by sales. Don’t be afraid to push the vendor to the edge. At times, the best options/solution might cost you some red eyes/sleepless nights, but they also long-term put you ahead of the curve of your competitors.
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Suk Kim
senior managed consultant at a tech services company
The Solaris Unix platform is very powerful, simple, and scalable. The on-premise environment is optimized, but the cloud environment is not.
If you need a Unix platform, I recommend Oracle Cloud. Oracle Cloud only supports Unix platforms.
View full review »Before adopting Oracle Solaris, extensive pre-testing is needed in order to gain the necessary experience. Ideally, certification on Oracle Solaris for related IT team members is desirable.
View full review »If you have never done it or you do not have a sufficient amount of experience, hire an external consultant or an Oracle consultant to do the job.
View full review »Best choice for professional workers: I personally suggest Oracle Solaris.
I'm happy to test the Oracle Solaris 11.4 Beta.
View full review »I like it. If someone asked me for advice, I’d encourage them to use the Oracle.
View full review »I definitely recommend it.
When I’m looking at vendors to work with, I definitely look for one with a good reputation of being reliable because that provides a solid foundation for the many components that will run on it. It's definitely not like the sort of software that you can get from some new start-up, which might provide more features and value. The product and the vendor have to be proven.
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