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"It stands out for its exceptional stability."
"We like that the virtualization is built in, so you don't have to spend extra money on buying licenses for a hypervisor."
"The product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"The ability to manipulate the zones and the files within the zones from a global OS provides us flexibility that no other virtualization can match."
"Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize."
"We use the solution as an internal operating system."
"It eases the burden by restricting the use of open-source Linux and preventing the development community from obtaining their own images. This is crucial for maintaining a secure supply chain and ensuring the lockdown of live Linux packages."
"The most valuable feature is the OpenShift platform."
"It is compatible with most Java microservices applications."
"We are a Managed Service Provider. Red Hat Enterprise Linux enables us not to be worried about vulnerabilities, security, and patching."
"The flexible and extensive system makes it easy to cluster, check redundancies, and perform data backups."
"The most valuable features of RHEL are security, performance tuning, storage management, and OS-level automation."
"It has improved our organization's management and efficiency."
"Management is portable and easily automated so deploying or installing packages and running updates is seamless."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ability to be used in a virtualized environment."
"The installation of the solution is becoming easier every year after new releases. The first installation can take an hour but you can use templates to make the installation very quick."
"One of the most valuable features of Windows Server is that it is easy to use. Also, with Windows, everything is integrated."
"The performance is good."
"Its performance is very good, and it is stable. All applications are working perfectly, and there is no issue."
"The solution has a sufficient amount of stability and performance that meets my needs."
"The most valuable features are the ease of access and maintaining the solution."
"The deployment can be done with rapidity and much ease."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered backend management. In the 11.4 version, Oracle added a management console. It would be great if we maybe had a user management tool to go with it."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"More monitoring tools could be included in the product."
"The Solaris code is open, and the documentation is accessible to all, not only to registered users. Also, the documentation does not support some solutions, and there are no other options."
"I would love to see improvements in SVM, so file systems could be increased or migrated without downtime to the environment, similar to what ZFS is capable of."
"Solaris is not easy to use. It needs better GUI, UI, and configuration tools."
"Oracle customer service is slow at times."
"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 DNF package manager could be improved."
"It is mostly better than other solutions. However, it is sometimes difficult for disaster recovery, so we have to plan accordingly."
"Sometimes they don't have new versions for applications like Apache or PHP. I understand it's because they have to have support for them, so they can't have the latest version all the time, but that's the main thing I see that could be improved."
"All resources should be available on the website."
"Servers: More applications for monitoring (e.g., nmon)."
"Network management can be easier. It is getting more complex."
"New products need better documentation. The websites also have a single sign-on to get you from one side to the other. As a partner, I had a problem finding out how I needed to connect and to which side of the solution."
"The product should be made available on Oracle Cloud."
"I would like to see better integration with other operating systems."
"The platform's user interface needs improvement."
"The stability could be improved."
"The performance from time to time can be a bit suspect."
"The scalability could be improved a bit."
"Stability-wise, there is room for improvement."
"As for additional features, we are very interested in the new feature released by Windows: Azure Virtual Desktop. We are currently exploring it so that instead of people depending on their own desktop, we could work on Azure Virtual Desktop. Integration with Azure Virtual Desktop would be cool."
"I'd like to be able to separate the services offered."
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