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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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Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems.

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.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

19 months

Average Discount

13%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
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Oracle Solaris Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Its high-end features suit an enterprise OS, such as compatibility, portability, interoperability, and of course scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Oracle supported applications work well on Oracle Solaris OS, however, non-oracle applications do not work well in terms of performance.

It should have a better GUI for the interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use this as an enterprise Operating System for our on-premises applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It mostly supports all the commands as the Unix machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

It has become old, and there I feel there is a lack of support for this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have a development environment and this OS is one of the supported platforms on which we support our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Praveen Kumar  M.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

It's an advanced operating system that provides many features like containerization technology, orchestration, and software-defined networks. This operating system is many used by enterprise customers for its advanced features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Its market shares significantly less when it comes to Linux operating systems. There are fewer courses available on the internet to read, learn and implement things on the Solaris operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris:

A production-level enterprise containerized application that must use Oracle Solaris for our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have deployed our end-to-end containerization technology stack on Solaris; we use Openshift and Kubernetes for the orchestration of the containers & their's handling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Better patches on every month and great and smooth access with folders in my servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Unusual loose of access on servers and certain data mount lost on certain patches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris:

I recommend for the admin who maintain servers for there clients it much useful on maintenance perspective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The Solaris were used on our business client servers were we perform maintenance activities and restart the servers whenever required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

It offers innovative technologies that fundamentally change the equation for organizations needing to reduce cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

It doesn't have a user-friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Troubleshooting file access problem

It provides portability, scalability, interoperability, and compatibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

It gives me a consistent compatibility.

Is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

The only reason I can come up with is the "lack" of info out on the web if you're not an expert with Solaris Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris:

It is good handling of patches and updates. online patching solution is available from Oracle and its outstanding. pricing is very good compared to other OS options available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For Oracle Database and Java applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Good support from Oracle. We get round the clock support from Oracle and team is very technically advanced.

Best knowledge articles are available on Oracle site and also in the online websites and so it becomes easy to implement.

Good handling of patches and updates. online patching solution is available from Oracle and its outstanding.

pricing is very good compared to other OS options available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Had performance issues hosting Databases on Solaris. So had to move out to other OS options

Cannot host MS Active DB. This I think Oracle should take into consideration to address it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris:

I will recommend this for a small scale applications and web applications. Most of the small scale industries are welcome to use this since it's cost effective and easy to manage and maintain. Support is excellent so that if we encounter any issues, we will have support team to help resolve the OS related issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy to handle the updates and patching is very easy to manage. This is an outstanding feature.

Application deployment is very good

versatile in deploying more varied applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

What I like the most about Oracle Solaris is that it costs low compared to other OS in the market. It is best known for security and reliability. Solaris has a great community behind them. The support team is also very responsive. The processing speeds is also comparingly better than other operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

It needs to be more user-friendly. Does not support many third-party integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle Solaris:

Recommended for short-term use for anyone who's looking for good processing speed OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The backup solutions in place are good. OS operates at a good processing speed, unlike other operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marina B.
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

Solaris is an ideal operating system for virtualized infrastructure.

It is very useful for application management and has data protection in the cloud.

This makes it a practical OS for development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

There is nothing negative, especially if you are in this area of IT.

It is a very scalable and fast processing software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

On the operational side, we have benefited from the agility to manage operationally critical applications and how we have a vast virtualization infrastructure backed entirely in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arunesh T.
AT
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What do you like best about Oracle Solaris?

The best I like about this operating is security and processing speed. An operating system does not hang like windows when multiple programs are in use simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle Solaris?

Since we mostly used windows, it takes time to explore the options in solaris, but when we are used to Solaris, it is best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is the best operating system. We are using Solaris for data analytics purposes, which includes billions of data. The benefits are many, like security, excellent processing speed, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.