Oracle Solaris Pricing
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Daren Ferreira
Infrastructure as a Service Manager
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.
View full review »As a private user or individual, I wouldn't recommend it to others, considering it is a costly product. For a private company, it is a reliable product. An individual can't use much of the solution since it is a complex tool.
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reviewer1632822
Service Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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reviewer1301145
CEO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
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.
View full review »The solution is free to use.
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Yemisrach Asnake
IT Project Manager at Awash International Bank
The solution is expensive and is based on an annual fee.
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reviewer2088135
Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The current setup with hardware devices involves a higher cost, but the performance is top-notch.
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Shafiq Khan
Senior Manager IT Operations at NRSP microfinance Bank
You don't have to pay a licensing fee. The solution is free to use. It's bound with the hardware.
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Edgar Orare
Senior Systems Engineer at Dimension Data
The product is inexpensive.
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Jay-Chandran
Group manager at Computer center
The price of Oracle Solaris could be less expensive.
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Ayman Said
Deputy IT Manager at ICAPP (Americana Group)
Its licensing is on a yearly basis.
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Diego E. Aguirre
Oracle ACE - Specialized in Systems Technologies at Telecom Argentina
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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reviewer1346454
KYC Quality Assurance at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
There are no licensing fees but you can opt to pay for support.
View full review »It is a very expensive product.
View full review »It is NOT affordable compared to Linux. Oracle’s licensing policy is horrible.
View full review »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.
View full review »Solaris is highly priced compared to other solutions, but since it's a niche product, this is to be expected.
View full review »It is an expensive product. I rate the pricing a ten out of ten.
View full review »The annual license cost is fair and reasonable.
View full review »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.
View full review »Before thinking about pricing and licensing, we should try to understand whether the return of investment will be enough and fair. For example, I have provided technical consulting services for several companies that, at first, chose another operating system, but after some time, they implemented Oracle Solaris because they understood the importance of an operating system which provides security, performance, and total integration.
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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
This solution needs a license to use it.
View full review »Oracle licensing is very complex, so don't make any assumptions that could come back to bite you.
View full review »Licensing is a core feature, as you can use zones and LDOMs to reduce the number of core you need to license Oracle product for. This is a huge saving for anyone using Oracle Database of Middleware.
View full review »Since taken over by Oracle, there has been an increase in the software cost (earlier patch/packages were free with SunSsolve), but that’s business and I think it’s okay.
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manager278619
Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Licensing for Solaris is normally on a yearly basis.
View full review »It is more expensive, but very complete and worth enacting.
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Oracle Solaris
April 2024
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