Oracle Linux Primary Use Case

Name: Oracle Linux
Brand: Oracle
Rating: 4.2 (127 reviews)

Dnyaneshwar Rajput

Manager, Information Technology at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My main use cases for Oracle Linux are ERP. I am using Oracle Linux for ERP purposes.

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SHREEKANT DESHPANDE

IT Admin at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our primary use case for Oracle Linux is that we are using it on Oracle Cloud. Our ERP is on Oracle Cloud as well. We downloaded a PDF to compare Oracle Linux with Ubuntu Linux for a vendor request on a project.

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Badhon Islam

System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

My main use case for Oracle Linux at Deep System is that we are using it for big data.

In my main use case for Oracle Linux, it's based on Red Hat, and it's secure, reliable, and open source.

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RajeshKumar4

Director of Provisioning Services at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

We are using Oracle ERP and Oracle Database, and we have installed Oracle tools and applications on Oracle Linux in a virtual environment. View full review »

Thomas Waltair

Regional Head And Director Product Development at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Our clients are using Oracle Linux for core banking deployment and enterprise application deployment. View full review »

SyedAli19

IT Department Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

We are using Oracle ERP and Oracle Database, and we have installed Oracle tools and applications on Oracle Linux in a virtual environment. View full review »

Jewals Ubel

Oracle system admin at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

My main use case for Oracle Linux is as a system administrator. A specific example of how I use Oracle Linux in my day-to-day work is supporting users and solving their issues.

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Erick Kathurima

CIO at a wireless company with 11-50 employees

Since Oracle Linux is a very light software, it does not take time to deploy unless you have virtuals, or if you have containers you need to set up, which will take additional time. Installing and setting up Oracle Linux takes very few minutes.

Oracle Linux is very supportive in supporting my AI-driven projects and workloads.

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Behal Karun

System Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I am using Oracle Linux on a daily basis.

My main use case for Oracle Linux is that we have lots of applications.

A specific example of how I'm using Oracle Linux is for the server and application server for company applications.

My company uses Oracle Linux for application and monitoring purposes.

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Azaz Qurershi

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I am using Oracle Linux in the IT industry.

We configure Oracle Linux and give it to our customers, which amounts to thousands of people using it.

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reviewer2088135

Senior Infrastructure Specialist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Currently, I see that everyone is looking into Linux. People are migrating to Linux from different proprietary hardware systems, which are often more expensive than x86 systems. This is the reason for moving to Linux.

When it comes to Linux, if I have Exadata and all Oracle Linux operating systems, these are what I deal with. Nutanix, with hardware offering software-defined storage, also helps me. For clients with unlimited licenses, the advantage of HXIT6 hardware is that the license is not a constraint, prompting them to switch.

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Alexsandro Rollim

Consultant at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have experience with Linux solutions.

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reviewer2780502

Senior Linux Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

My main use case for Oracle Linux is to provision a VM and run applications or services.

A specific example of an application I run on Oracle Linux is revenue assurance and fraud management systems. Oracle Linux serves as the OS, while the application sits on the OS. We make use of some of the Linux packages that are residing on Oracle Linux to work with the application or the service. Oracle Linux also provides us with NFS and CIFS because we needed to have a central storage.

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AbdulHameed

Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use it for security purposes. Linux, or Solaris, offers more security and reliability than Windows operating systems. Windows is easier to attack.

Most files used by hackers are executables, and if your vendor's operating system isn't secure, that's a problem. That's why we use Oracle Linux; it's compatible with our database.

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Charles Chinionga

Superbly mistaken at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

My main use case for Oracle Linux is server administration, and I typically use it for web administration, application, and database administration in my work.

A specific example of how I use Oracle Linux with my databases is to implement our core banking system, where I use MySQL and manage the database.

Regarding how I use Oracle Linux, we are currently facing challenges with WebLogic, and we are using Apache and WebLog from Oracle that add to our tasks.

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reviewer2774253

Systems Principal at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

My main use case for Oracle Linux is for administration, specifically full administration for Unix servers, such as hosting applications, monitoring the server health, and all the administration tasks I have been using it for.

I am hosting applications on those servers and monitoring the servers that are operating on Oracle Linux with full monitoring.

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CHANTI BANOTH

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are currently using Oracle Linux in our organization for handling various systems. My experience with Oracle Linux is mainly in managing it for server performance and handling different operating systems like Linux, Windows, and UNIX. View full review »

Clovis-Vieira

CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

My use cases with Oracle Linux recently include the government of Goiás state in the Secretary of Economy, a GM concessionary of vehicles named Jorlan in Goiás, and Alnutri Alimentos, a rice and chili factory. Additionally, I have worked with the Ministry of Exterior of Brazil and many others.

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Marcelo Muniz

Database Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I am a database administrator and work within the database that installs the solution all over the company and for clients.

The solution used to be set up on hardware such as Exadata and Spark machines. Nowadays, the solution is set up on virtual machines and uses the ODA in various cloud environments.

There are 50 to 100 people who use the solution across multiple teams that operate morning, noon, and night. My team is composed of 20 architects or engineers who focus on DBA for Oracle DB2 and SQL server.

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Peter Karlsson

System specialist at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

We strategically use it in specific cases, leveraging it as a cost-effective substitute for Red Hat due to favorable license agreements with Oracle. In virtualized Oracle database scenarios, it helps meet licensing requirements by pinning workloads to specific cores. For customers with oversized machines, we employ it to ensure compliance, partitioning virtualized clusters to license only necessary components for Oracle databases. Sometimes, it coexists with another management solution, serving solely for core-pinning and compliance, while a separate solution manages virtual machines which optimizes licensing costs and aligns with Oracle's requirements for workload isolation and core-pinning, particularly in scenarios with larger-than-needed virtualized clusters for specific database workloads.

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Suresh_M

Database administrator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

We use the product for Oracle Database and MySQL databases.

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Gaurav Babbar

Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In our company, we are using Oracle Linux for virtualized machines or VMs. So, Oracle Linux is the operating software for us. The tool is easy to use, and its performance is also good. From a competitive point of view, the solution is cost-effective, so it is installed in our machines.

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Daniel_Nemethy

Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

We are using Oracle Linux for supporting traffic surveillance in Hungary.

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Rekha Pawar

System Administrator at a university with 10,001+ employees

We deploy the OS and prepare the VM, then give it to the development for the application users to use. It is the base that we create, depending on requirements, on how many CPUs or how much memory is required.

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reviewer899619

Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution for application servers. Linux offers many features, including CPU monitoring, memory management, hard disk monitoring, process management, and log management. We rely on command-line tools and shell scripts rather than graphical interfaces for these tasks.

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Julius Mboya

Chief technical officer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I was using it in a production support scenario with an Oracle database installed on Oracle Linux.

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Ayman Allam

DevOps and Automation Lead | Technical Expert at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees

I primarily use the solution as an operating system, an OS. It's mainly used for hosting some products.

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SyedAli19

IT Department Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

We are currently using Oracle ERP, and based on Oracle's recommendation, it is best to use Oracle Linux.

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LLIEDNO

Sr. NetBackup System Administrator at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

I use the solution to host Oracle Database and ACSLS which manages tape libraries. ACSLS used to be owned by StorageTek but was purchased by Oracle.

For example, our infrastructure utilizes the solution to run ACSLS and provide commands to the tape library, conduct inventory, provide encryption, and keep track of volumes with their location slots.

The solution is not used by thousands but instead provides inter-computer communications and services like DNS, encryption, and management.

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Thomas Waltair

Regional Head And Director Product Development at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

We use Oracle Linux to deploy our core banking product. Our client has nearly 1,000 concurrent users.

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Rusi Popov

Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am using the solution for a project that I am trying to migrate it to the cloud. My experience with the cloud is at the beginners level. I haven't tested the solution very much yet but according to the published documentation, opinions etc., I see that Oracle Linux is the closest to my needs for future migration to the cloud.

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Simon Wanyutu

Founder at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

Oracle DB is used in one of the use cases that you have worked on, specifically for the database aspect. It is likely that all of the solutions that have been deployed and are currently running use the Oracle database.

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Joonik Jang

Operations Team Director at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution as a database and operating system.

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Abhishek Kini

Senior Software Engineer at a retailer with 201-500 employees

I use it for security on our servers.

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Lakshmi Prasada Reddy Nandyala

Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The tool’s password policies help us to create users and groups. We can also plan on the access that will be given to them. I use it for identity management during the installment and configuration process. We use it to start or stop processes and services. Another use case of the solution is post-opening.

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MohamedEzz

Development Manager at a consultancy

We primarily use the solution as an operating system for our internal systems.

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RusiPopov

Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the product in a development environment for development purposes only.

As a developer, I interact mostly with the product's shell. I'm experienced in programming in shell.

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reviewer8857240

Program manger at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We were using Oracle Linux for moving the SAP on Oracle workloads to the cloud.

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reviewer1766202

Sr. Manager - Tech Ops at a media company with 10,001+ employees

We are using Oracle Linux for server systems.

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Faustine Chisasa

System Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

We use Oracle Linux for Virtualization Platform, DNS Servers, Database Servers and IT infrastructure observability tools

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reviewer1889697

Chief Product Officer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We use the solution for big packet inspection and as an operating system.

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Landry Mbala

Développeur applications at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the solution for our internet banking product.

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Igor Kostenko

Project Manager at a insurance company with 1-10 employees

We use the solution to manage the databases.

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Trevor Omondi

Enterprise Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

We use this solution as an operating system to run Oracle databases through.

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Yemisrach Asnake

IT Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case of the solution was for educational purposes at first and also used on some web-based applications, that require a Linux-based operating system.

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Radhey Rajput

Sr. IT Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution to create some scripts, and push, start, and stop our product.

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Devaiss Mohanty

Premium Services Sales- CX Professional Services at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We use it on-premises because there is more data and then we download and upload it to the cloud. Customers are a little upset whenever they have to upload all the data to the cloud and they are also very specific. Whoever is working with us has the data on their systems.

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MuhammadMwinchande

Software Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I am using Oracle Linux for databases.

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Adnan Yusuf

Enterprise Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for billing and for Oracle applications.

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reviewer1029540

Manager, IT at a renewables & environment company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We're using Oracle Linux to run virtual machines for their database solutions in the cloud. We're also using Oracle Linux to run an SFTP server.

We have several Oracle Linux 7s that support the databases. We have about ten of those. We have one SFTP server as well. That is the extent of it.

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PradeepKumar11

IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I primarily use the solution for running personal and business applications.

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reviewer1053252

Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Linux is basically Red Hat. It's the same. Oracle took the CentOS project, which is Red Hat, and made its own enhancements. They added something they call 3DBear, which is their proprietary technology. They call it the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK).

Oracle took Red Hat, stripped a lot of the software that was not needed for Oracle, which made Red Hat much smaller. They optimized the UEK for their Oracle database applications.

A customer who is planning to have an Oracle database and is looking to see whether to choose to go with Oracle Linux or SUSE Linux or Red Hat, the best option for them would be to go with Oracle Linux because it's the same vendor.

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LuisRibeiro

Fresh Operations Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I use this solution for developing applications and APIs for our platform.

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MukeshKumar5

Cyber security manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Oracle Linux is mainly used for deploying Oracle databases. It can be used for a multitude of other functions. There are modules that can be implemented on systems to cater to your organization's needs.

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Kevin Honde

Data Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution internally to develop our systems.

Our developers work in another section to develop the data center. We provide services to the developers and other business units.

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it_user1215906

Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

We are primarily using the solution for our Oracle Database.

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Mac Wang

Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We used Oracle Enterprise Linux to replace a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment because Oracle Linux rolled out a new kernel. We thought it might be more stable than our previous edition.

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Mohammad Salman

Manager of Customer Services at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using it as a DNS server.

We also have Oracle Vault and Oracle Fire installed on it. We are planning to use it as a model system, for learning.

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Prajith Chowthee

Independent Consultant at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We use the solution on our server and premises.

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Moses NYOTA

Senior Software and Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use this solution for deploying and managing operating systems and web servers. It is good for web, network, and file management.

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reviewer1002447

IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

We are using Oracle Linux for our clustering system. We are doing many things with Oracle Linux and the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager. I am using an Oracle database and an Oracle Linux-based operating system.

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reviewer1711344

Interim IT Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are using the latest version.

It is useful for running our applications.

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reviewer938901

Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I am using Oracle Linux for running my personal and business applications.

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WaqarShah

Manager at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

We are using Oracle Linux for our database.

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SAMUELMWANGI

Director at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

We use Oracle Linux as an operating system in my organization.

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reviewer1390341

IT Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use this solution for business as an operating system for applications.

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Slava Urbanovich

Master Consultant - RedHat & Oracle Cloud, Virtualization , Automation at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our organization uses mostly Oracle engineered systems and appliances such as Oracle Exadata, PCA Private Cloud Appliance, Oracle Database Appliance, etc. Anything that is an engineering solution from Oracle, essentially. We also use Oracle Virtualization, OVM. These are on Linux.

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Frederic Busquier

Product Development Manager with 1-10 employees

Installing Oracle APEX for testing purposes
Learning Oracle APEX
Making some fancy web applications, including forms that load and display images

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José Manuel Monteiro

DBA Oracle with 51-200 employees

New infrastructure for Oracle databases: deployment of several database environments with no issues and in a faster way.

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it_user899421

Software Development Manager

We are using the firewall for intrusion prevention, and it has performed well.

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Ian Leath

CTO EMEIA at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Fujitsu's Oracle/Intel platform has been specifically designed with Oracle in mind using Oracle VM, Oracle Linux, for our customers wanting to use Oracle product, applications, databases. We've designed it in a way that we get the best possible performance from the applications and databases on our engineered system.

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Chris Bains

Consultant at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

Healthcare IT.

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it_user860853

Oracle Propositions Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Fujitsu uses OVM and Oracle Linux extensively with Fujitsu hardware to provide our customers with a certified, scalable, pre-tested platform to run Oracle Applications and technology.

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Suk Kim

senior managed consultant at a tech services company

Ksplice is a really cool feature. The availability is maximized because it can be patched without downtime. Oracle Linux provides free Ksplice.

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it_user769602

Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are a system integrator from Slovenia and we work extensively with OVM and Linux products.

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it_user769587

IAM Architect at a government

My company is based out of Virginia. I do a lot of work with the federal government.

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it_user769572

Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We use Oracle Linux with multiple clients for multiple applications.

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Mike Turner

Product Lead at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

We're quite heavy Linux users. We do high performance computing on Linux so we like a Linux which is compatible with several platforms, so we don't have to cross-compile for too many Linux editions.

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Helmut Rainel

Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It is an operating system that is used for running some applications.

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