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."Solaris' best feature is its stability."
"Its networking has helped me combine the power of a neural network with the benefits of virtualization to improve the AI's performance."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"Oracle Solaris provides an ease of use."
"Oracle Solaris's operating system is good."
"Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize."
"The solution is scalable."
"Ubuntu Linux is a convenient solution."
"It has improved our ability to carry out maintenance without downtime as migrating services between server environments is largely seamless."
"Its performance is valuable. I am satisfied with it."
"If there is a virus going into the network, it has to pass through an Ubuntu server, which can't be infected by the virus. So, there are less viruses on our systems."
"It is easy to use, performs great, and is stable and scalable."
"I like the fact that I can make it very secure with my own knowledge, which makes it different from Windows that does things in the background by magic, and you hope that it's secure. I like the availability of starting with Linux with totally minimal permissions for anybody and then increasing it on an as-needed basis. This is probably the most important to me."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors."
"I believe before Oracle was using Oracle Linux, they were using Oracle Solaris for their customers who are using Oracle databases. This was because it was more optimized for the hardware built for it. It has good performance for the database only. However, if you take it out of the Oracle applications, it will not do well compared to other operating systems, such as Linux or even Windows can have better performance."
"Setting up Oracle Solaris can be complex because it requires more commands than other systems."
"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."
"The primary drawback with this product is the lack of version updates."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"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 solution is pricey and can be improved by lowering the cost."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"One of the reasons people don't use Ubuntu on servers is because they are not as secure as Red Hat."
"Developing more applications for businesses could work better, but that is not part of the OS piece. Let the developers work on other apps, therefore the needs for consuming less memory do not affect the performance of this OS version."
"Its interface could be improved and made richer."
"It would be nice to see more compatibility with certain Microsoft solutions, such as OneDrive."
"The installation of Ubuntu is somewhat complicated, requires better documentation."
"If the user interface were further improved then it would be better because more people would be able to use it."
"I think Ubuntu is not that secure."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while Ubuntu Linux is ranked 2nd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 133 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, 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 "A stable and free solution that is easy to deploy and has a user-friendly GUI". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, SUSE Linux Enterprise and CentOS, 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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