Among the many advantages the Solaris operating environment provides are portability, scalability, interoperability, and compatibility. Solaris has excellent throughput. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sparc and Solaris won't disappear overnight, and Oracle has promised to support both until 2034. But the two will likely be long gone by then. Sparc and Solaris won't disappear overnight, and Oracle has promised to support both until 2034. But the two will likely be long gone by then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This Operating system is providing multiple quality for security. A numerous tools that maintains the operating system's health and functionality. Its also has an amazing integration with other Oracle products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
GUI is not the best, it needs expertise to run and maintain this kind of software. But this is not a big deal. No free upgrade because of Enterprise editions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the huge performance & stability, and the scalability of Solaris, and its advanced features (e.g., DTrace, virtualization, ZFS, and others). Because it is a mature Unix, it could run a wide variety of major software, as well as open-source software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The market has largely left them behind. Solaris is now a niche operating system on niche hardware. The chief users are large installations with existing enviornments that cannot or will not be migrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is good for financial database management. Because of isolation it can keep the database separate. Network security is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Linux is free and Solaris is not. Less awareness about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Oracle Solaris is best suited to run Databases and other Java applications.
Offers best performance and scalability for the DB workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing negative that I've come across that has affected my work with DBs so far.
It's Unix like OS , so people without any prior knowledge of it would find it difficult initially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Oracle Solaris provides multiple capabilities for administration and security, a huge number of tools that support maintaining the OS health and hardening, also amazing integration with Oracle's other products.big Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Oracle Solaris required solid background to support administration and maintenance, GUI is not the best, but at the end, it is not a big issue for experienced administrators. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The malware protection security is provided right from the hypervisor to the applications hosted in the OS.
Easily integrated on cloud and management is easier.
You can also move some legacy applications running on very old version to the latest one. After moving it to the new versions, the upgrades to the packages are shown which can be updated manually and any changes easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The support when any third party integration comes in is could be well documented.
The documentation sometimes doesn't contain what you would be looking for.
The old solaris version is nowhere compared to the latest release.
It is always recommended to upgrade it to the latest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What I like the best in oracle solaris operating is that it is user friendly, provides low cost in terms of applications development and maintenance and helps broad services in company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What I most dislike in oracle solaris operating system is that you cannot update or upgrade for free because it is enterprise. You cannot also upgrade the security due to it is expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Great performance and simple to use
- Great support from the oracle team
- Cost is low as compared to other operating systems in the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing as of now overall great OS from ORACLE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.