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Oracle Solaris Overview

What is Oracle Solaris?

Oracle Solaris 11.2 is a complete, integrated platform, combining OpenStack, software-defined networking, and built-in virtualization with a proven enterprise-class operating system.

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Oracle Solaris 11.2 is a complete, integrated platform, combining OpenStack, software-defined networking, and built-in virtualization with a proven enterprise-class operating system.


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Recent Oracle Solaris Reviews

Mukul R.
MR
Mukul R.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Overall my experience has been positive"
It's very easy to use and pretty good for programmers
patel k.
PK
patel k.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Robust and reliable operating system for enterprise need"
it's scalability and compatibility with modern hardware are excellent tool like Dtrace provide deep system observability and troubleshooting and it...
Bhavik M.
BM
Bhavik M.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Reliable, secure, and scalable enterprise solution with advanced features"
Oracle Solaris excels in reliability, security, and scalability, with advanced features like ZFS ensuring data integrity and performance.

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

19 months

Average Discount

13%

Perceived Cost

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

- More reliability and availability

- Easy designed to scale

- High Security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

- High cost

- lack of community for support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Increase Security

- flexible Virtualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

We have been using this OS for a while. We need to run an enterprise application with Oracle as the backend DB. Once we started using this OS the DB fetching performed very well. Solaris fetching the DB faster than the previous OS. So far, users have been satisfied with this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Apart from the Oracle packages, facing some issues with installing 3rd party applications. Integration with some packages is a big headache for the IT team. It is not recommended to run dynamic websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

Another OS took too long to fetch the result from the Oracle DB. Solaris never asked me to restart the server; it is a significant relief for us. We can trust the OS for hosting the Oracle DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liny S.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

This database engine has established very strong and dependable for long-time period use. It can maintain as much as a massive variety of databases simultaneously. It affords a super control console with a brilliant visualizer of events; this additionally consists of a backup answer with scheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Oracle Solaris Server desires quite a few reminiscences and creates enormous logs. The answer has a high-charge variety cost. Not many complaints about functionality and task execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

This engine handles actual corporation wishes for database garage and processing. Migrating from some other answer and merging some other gadget into one Server become one of the maximum substantial advantages of the usage of oracle solaris Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh K.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Zfs has made life easy for the Administrators. And after introduction of the the IPS Managing packages made much more effective then older system.i also like hard partitioning feture on the SPARC servers for licensing requirements to run the Databases on the Solaris. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

It's little bit complex then other Unix based Operating systems like RHEL, Suse etc.. but what I dislike is why oracle stopped developing newer version of the Solaris. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been working on Solaris 10 and 11 since 2011 but i haven't seen single issue where my operating system got crashed so in my opinion it is the most stable operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sooraj S.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

I have work with Solaris operating system in last few years.The value feature in Solaris is virtualization.The Solaris is very stable operating system.I feel very comfortable to use Solaris.I always recommend Solaris to my friends, because,high availability, scalability,virtualization, excellent support & security.solaris is capable of running on different devices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Solaris OS is very slow.The Solaris is not flexible compared with other OS on the market today.The Solaris need to improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

Portable, scalable, interoperable and compatible.support wide range of hardware.The Solaris is best operating system for database and Java applications.solaris with support is less expensive than redhat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Oracle Solaris is a Unix-based operating system. A person who has sound knowledge of Linx can easily handle this. Also, it is more secure as comparing other windows operating system. Oracle Solaris provides the best database performance by comparing to other providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

The cost of Oracle Solaris is high compared to other platforms. Also, Oracle Solaris is a Unix-based operating system, so it is difficult for Windows users because Windows is a traditional one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

Oracle Solaris is swift and accurate in database retrieval and access and integrates Java applications. It is under the Enterprise plan, which opens many possibilities to the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hari P.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Solaris is a Unix-based OS that is the go-to for database servers in the industry. Highly robust, secure & fault tolerant. Easy to use for any Unix/Linux user. Highly performant, their virtualization feature is the best in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Migration to Solaris from others was not straightforward; it needs some more utilities for handling migration better. UI can be improved as any new user might find it hard to switch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solaris provides the best OS for database servers, which is secure, reliable, and highly performant. I have hardly seen any crashes. This helps businesses to run smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Madhav P.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

the upside of oracle Solaris is that , it dosen't crash, easy for patching and maintenance, the configuration files are not different its similar like other linux machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

the part I dislike is that , it has some different way of giving command , for eg:: the backspace button dosen't work unless you set the setty on keyboard to work properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

we can have RAC system on oracle solaris , we can have oracle application installed on it which runs smoothly, dosen't take more time for patching procedure, patches are easly available , upgradation of OS is smoother process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

The performance i like the most in this Operating System is, And it comes with DB services. We can handle the services with the help of JAVA. And most importantly, it is a Unix-based OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

The OS is based on Unix, So management is difficult for windows users. And it is not easy using the platform. An expert from Linux is required for administration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

The cost is the primary concern of this product. And i face problems while integrating applications. Stability and speed are very most important things. When switched server from SQL to Oracle it is more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurav K.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Actually oracle solaris is a good OS. It's easy to use and the best part is it's support. It's best in world. People are knowledgable and they know what customer is saying. They resolve customer queries in few hours Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

As of now, i don't dislike anything in Oracle Solaris. Everything is working fine as expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle Solaris solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are also using HP-AIX, if we have an issue with our AIX box and we log a case, it will take more time. Just because of bad support we have switched to Oracle solaris. And now when we log a case with Oracle, our issue get resolved in no time. All the management and engineers are very happy with the ease of using Oracle Solaris Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.