"The best system I've ever used is Red Hat, in terms of its ability and consistency of the operating system. Other than that, the vast majority of applications that I had, you can deploy Red Hat with the support of the vast majority of applications. We don't have many issues with the OS, the support is very good."
"Its scalability and ease of setup and configuration are most valuable. When we have a hardware failure, we just save the configuration files, and in about half an hour, we have another server running with the same configuration. It is really easy to replace servers. This is the best feature."
"We find the Red Hat Satellite deployments very useful. It integrates well with other solutions."
"Customer support is valuable."
"The integrated solution approach reduces our TCO tremendously because we are able to focus on innovation instead of operations."
"The feature that I like the most is that we can integrate it easily with our existing infrastructure. We found that it is much easier to deploy RHEL in our environment compared to a competing distribution like Ubuntu."
"I like the fact that most of the system configuration is Namespace so it's easy to get to and easy to configure, and most of it still uses text documents. Not all of it's a menu-driven-type entry. I also like the fact that it's a very standard file system layout so it's easy to navigate."
"The solution has features that simplify adoption for non-Linux users. There is an interface that you can activate on RHEL systems, and on other Linux systems as well, so that you will get a graphical user interface instead of just a shell. It's easier for an administrator who is used to only working on Windows."
"The main feature is that Linux is flexible to work with for most web-based applications."
"The solution offers a secure operation system."
"Linux is easy to use. You have more control on a Unix system."
"SUSE Linux Enterprise is scalable."
"I have not experienced any issues with this operating system."
"The most valuable feature is that there is an inbuilt HANA firewall."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The stability of the solution is good. We have not had any issue with performance."
"The active directory that the server provides is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"We can scale the solution if we need to."
"I like that it's a stable product. For me, it's working fine."
"What I like most about Windows Server is that it's easy to use."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the Active Directory. I have had good experience with Windows Server."
"The most valuable feature is the performance."
"The stability and performance are great."
"The most valuable features are the file transfer protocol (FTP) and the secure file transfer protocol (SFTP)."
"Linux overall needs improvement. They cannot go much beyond what Linus Torvalds's kernel implementation can do. I come from AIX, and there were very cool things in AIX that I am missing dearly, e.g., being able to support not only adding, but also reducing memory and number of processors. That is not supported on Linux right now, and it is the same for the mainstream file systems supported by Red Hat. There is no way of reducing a file system or logical volume. Whereas, in AIX, it was a shoo-in. These are the little things where we can say, "Ah, we are missing AIX for that.""
"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."
"Their pricing and documentation can be improved."
"I'm not sure how the support is being changed in terms of needing to pay for it. That's an area that can be improved. They should offer support without charging users for it."
"The biggest thing that is crushing RHEL is documentation. Their documentation is haphazard at best. The man pages that you can use locally are pretty good, they've been fleshed out pretty well, but the documentation from Red Hat itself really needs somebody to go through it and review it."
"It is mostly better than other solutions. However, it is sometimes difficult for disaster recovery, so we have to plan accordingly."
"It could be a bit more user-friendly. It could also be cheaper."
"The accessibility to the resources could be more widespread. We have to put a lot of effort into finding indigenous information on the site. For example, the license information is convoluted. This information should be easier for customers to access."
"The free version sometimes has security holes."
"In the next release it would be nice to see more integration and better automation of processses."
"I have not seen an ROI with this solution."
"SUSE could make more APIs available."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I would like to see GUI improved, it could be more user-friendly."
"The interface could improve."
"Red Hat has more packages that are available than SUSE does. I'd love to see more projects based on SUSE."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"It would be better if they improved the user interface."
"The solution could have better security features."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The solution needs container compatibility."
"Windows could add more tools to monitor the health of the server."
"The security needs to be improved."
"The stability is not very good because you have to restart the system to keep the stability."
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SUSE Linux Enterprise is ranked 6th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 10 reviews while Windows Server is ranked 3rd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 136 reviews. SUSE Linux Enterprise is rated 9.0, while Windows Server is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SUSE Linux Enterprise writes "Stable with an elegant design and good performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server writes "Easy to use, simple to set up, and scales well". SUSE Linux Enterprise is most compared with openSUSE Leap, Ubuntu Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux and Windows 10, whereas Windows Server is most compared with Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux and openSUSE Leap. See our SUSE Linux Enterprise vs. Windows Server report.
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