We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Red Hat, Canonical, Oracle and others in Operating Systems (OS) for Business."The stability of the solution is good."
"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 product's most valuable feature is partitioning resources and optimizing hardware utilization effectively."
"Solaris is scalable because they have their own file system, like CFS."
"Oracle Solaris provides an ease of use."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"One of the main features of this solution is the ease of use."
"The backup capabilities are quite good."
"The solution is stable, fast and free."
"The solution is free to use."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that it is a very free tool and serves as a very trustworthy product."
"I like its computation speed compared to Windows and other similar features."
"The most valuable features of Ubuntu Linux is the reliability, the ease of package management, and the ease of upgrading from one version to the next."
"The solution has a very good graphical user interface."
"The integration with other applications, like Chrome or Firefox, works excellent for users navigating and test browsing."
"The product's installation phase is easy."
"It is easy to use."
"Windows Server is stable."
"The stability of the Windows Server is good."
"Overall the solution has been functioning very well for us."
"Windows Server is easy to use. It's user friendly for the admin guys."
"The most valuable features are the ease of access and maintaining the solution."
"I like the views in the user interface."
"Setting up Oracle Solaris can be complex because it requires more commands than other systems."
"This product is not as flexible as other similar solutions on the market today."
"The challenge arises from the differences in commands and configurations compared to more common systems like Linux."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation."
"There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked."
"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."
"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 vendor must provide an official support team."
"The solution could improve by having better integration."
"On the desktop edition, we'd like more themes."
"Ubuntu Linux could improve by having more out-of-the-box functionality for common plug-and-play devices, such as printers. It's sometimes more difficult to plug-and-play printers with Ubuntu Linux. You need to work a bit and make some drivers work. They need to work a bit on plug-and-play devices."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The repository needs to be kept up to date all of the time."
"The only improvement I would suggest is to switching back to Aptitude. They switched a lot of the packages that used to be running in Aptitude to Snap. I don't find them as usable when they are in Snap. The most obvious instance of this is that it's caused me to have issues with Chrome. Starting Chrome took a couple of seconds before it was up and running, which wasn't pleasant. Back when it used to run packaging in Aptitude, I didn't have this problem. I know they're familiar with these issues because a lot of other people have experienced them too."
"The solution's initial setup is complex, and its technical support is not very good."
"It is not fast and is very slow. Versions before 2002 are not stable."
"Windows Server could be more secure."
"Security and vulnerabilities could improve."
"The price could be better and the licensing model could be easier to understand."
"Sometimes we are getting very quick support, sometimes it takes time."
"The technical support could improve."
"In terms of support, it's pretty complicated when you have to study the documentation."
"There's a short availability that could be much better."
