I have used other solutions, but it comes under the platform team, and they are the ones who interact with Oracle's technical support. I cannot comment on the performance because they are interacting with the tech support of other people. So for us, it's more on the application.

I did not work with another solution prior to choosing this one.

I have used Oracle and Red Hat Linux previously.

Previously to using this solution I used Linux and Microsoft.

I hold certifications from IBM and am MSP UX certified. I've worked extensively with SCO Unix and began my career with various Unix systems, including the black. Despite having experience with a range of Unix systems, I decided to focus on Solaris due to its diverse opportunities.

I worked with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a wider variety of resources, so I would recommend it more often.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation.

We have used Windows and several versions of Linux before.

We are also using Windows Server 2012.

I worked on various Unix systems, but I feel very comfortable working on Solaris. I'm aware of the evolution of Linux systems in the world because of the cost, but I don't feel the need to change for the time because this OS offers me compatibility and scalability that the company needs where I work.

I have had the opportunity to work with various other UNIX as well as Linux operating systems, but among all of them, I found Solaris to be a very stable operating system. Now with the evolution of LDOMs, ZFS and zones, it’s providing a perfect platform for virtualization solutions.

Used Solaris 10 before, but Solaris 11 is much easier and faster with patching.
Based on BootEnvironments and ZFS Solaris 11 always offers a failback.

I previously worked with Red Hat.

We had a solution that was going out of support. It was dying off, so we needed to move to a newer platform. Because Oracle already had the database, it made sense to use that platform.

A long time ago, an open Linux distribution was the main option for running most hosts, but raw performance and security problems forced us to migrate most critical systems to Solaris.

I have used Oracle Linux.

Most of the environments used Solaris, and we upgraded from Solaris 8/9 to Solaris 10.

We previously used x86 Linux equivalents.

I have used Linux, Windows, AIX and more. With Solaris 10, I stopped using AIX for any solutions, and focus on Solaris for larger systems, Linux for smaller systems and Windows when I need Microsoft. The new S7 is having me take a second look at using Solaris for the smaller systems as well.

Before moving to engineering, I worked as admin / implementation team in a heterogeneous environment. So this solution completely depends upon cost and the client’s requirements.

I think right now everyone talks about the cloud. I think we were falling behind. I would say in, perhaps, not 10 years, maybe less, something like five years, we have to follow the trend.

At that time we had Sybase and we had SQL Server, but then we started moving everything to Oracle.

No.

Probably more than half of the companies where I worked used Solaris, but not all of them. There were a few companies where I worked that were strictly Linux shops; no Solaris. The ones that did use Solaris chose it because it usually scales better in a vertical way. You can get a lot more performance out of a single machine. However, when applications can be scaled horizontally, it's usually cheaper to scale them on x86, which more or less means Linux, although not always.

I use Linux a lot, and, well before Oracle, I used to work on Sybase.

We used Linux on x86. Linux is very good, but this project is very important from the security, stability and scalability points of view.

IBM AIX was also considered, but x86 platform support from Oracle Solaris (for laboratory, test, DEV and QaS environments) added an advantage that leaned the scales toward Solaris. Proprietary hardware came with an added list of tasks you need to consider and be aware of during live use.

I think we used to use Sybase and then we transferred to Oracle. Now, they no longer use the Sybase servers.

I’m not so sure why they switched from Sybase to Oracle, maybe the technology required them to move from Sybase to Oracle. It could have been more stable, more space or something like that.

The company has had it for, pretty much, since I joined the company.