We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and Windows Server 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."The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system."
"The stability of the solution is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of setup."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"Solaris Zones and Containers are my favorite features."
"It stands out for its exceptional stability."
"Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting."
"We like that the virtualization is built in, so you don't have to spend extra money on buying licenses for a hypervisor."
"As I said, it was the the simplicity of the solution. It's easy to use or easy to identify what company's been what beneficial for the company, would be I guess it was easy to distinguish what we needed or what Perfect."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is very easy to use and very easy to onboard."
"Windows engineers are more affordable than Linux or Unix engineers, so that's another advantage. So, the management costs are much lower for the Windows Server."
"What I like most about Windows Server is that it's easy to use."
"Overall, Windows Server 2016 provides a stable environment for some of the very large workloads that it is subjected to in our organization, and it is very easy to use."
"The product can scale very well."
"We find the solution to be easy to use and simple to navigate."
"Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"There is a need for improved security."
"There's a short availability that could be much better."
"The optimization of the scalability could improve."
"The security policies need improvement."
"It can have more integration with different platforms."
"It would be nice if it was more user-friendly."
"The technical support could improve."
"I used to like the graphical interface and graphical philosophy in previous versions of Windows Server. I am not able to be as fast and efficient as I used to be using a graphical interface. However, Windows has moved to the PowerShell, it is powerful, but is still limited compared to what we do can do in Linux. Linux was built at the beginning of the command line interfaces which is why they have a very powerful command line."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 47 reviews while Windows Server is ranked 4th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 180 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.8, while Windows Server is rated 8.0. 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 Windows Server writes "Easy to setup, stable and caters to my wide range of use cases but lacks user-friendly interface". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10 and Google Chrome Enterprise, whereas Windows Server is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, Oracle Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Windows Server report.
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