Oracle Solaris Reviews

The primary use case of this solution is for the installation of the Oracle Database and further monitoring and managing.

The most valuable feature is the ease of setup.

The solution is pricey and can be improved by lowering the cost.

I have been using the solution for almost three years.

The solution is stable as long as you apply the patches and upgrades as recommended by the vendors.

The solution is scalable.

The technical support is on point and is always helpful.

Previously to using this solution I used Linux and Microsoft.

The initial setup was straightforward with the help of Oracle documentation and took one day.

The implementation was completed with the help of a vendor.

The solution is expensive and is based on an annual fee.

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

Unlike most Oracle products which are complex to set up this solution can be deployed with the help of the Oracle documentation for a UAT or IST integration case environment purpose.

There are over 60 people using the solution in our organization.

If cost is not an issue I recommend the solution.

The most valuable feature of Oracle Solaris is the incremental backup that happens in the system.

Oracle Solaris can improve by supporting all the recent features that are in the market from other competitors.

I have been using Oracle Solaris for approximately a few years.

Oracle Solaris is an industry-working solution. However, Linux has taken over.

Oracle Solaris has to support the newer technologies that have come up in Oracle. The scalability could improve.

We have approximately 15 to 20 clients using this solution.

We had a challenge in terms of reaching out to the support. We had an issue installing Oracle Solaris in our lab environment and we had problems with configuring it with Linux.  We had a very hard time reaching out to Oracle support to fix the issue.

The initial setup of Oracle Solaris is straightforward.

The deployment took a longer time than normal since we did not receive support from Oracle which was frustrating. It took approximately two months.

The amount of people needed for the deployment depends on the environment. If the environment is small to medium then we would use between five to ten people. This includes engineers, developers, and testers.

The price of Oracle Solaris could be less expensive.

In my observation in the last two to three years, the support for Oracle Solaris has dropped. Oracle is more moving into Linux platforms.

I rate Oracle Solaris a six out of seven.

We primarily use Oracle Solaris for its virtualization capabilities to host critical applications.

The platform has valuable stability.

More monitoring tools could be included in the product.

We have been using Oracle Solaris for ten years. At present, we use the latest version.

There have been specific instances while booting the system where we had to roll back the product to a previous version due to certain risks or issues. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

We manage around six customers for Oracle Solaris. It is a scalable product.

A lot of resolutions are already available in the product's knowledge base. Thus, we don't have to contact the support team frequently.

Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize, and it takes a few hours to complete. One executive is required to work on the deployment and maintenance.

The product is inexpensive.

I rate Oracle Solaris a nine out of ten. I advise others to ensure they can support the setup for the foreseeable future.

I find it most valuable that it is based on Linux. It is very user-friendly.

I would like to see a graphical user interface (GUI) improved.

Moreover, there is room for improvement in documentation. 

I have been working with this solution for three years now. 

It is a stable solution. 

It is a scalable solution. I recommend it for bigger companies. We have been selling it to some major telecom sites.

The technical support is very responsive and user-friendly. I do not see any problem with their current speed of response.

Positive

I worked with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux has a wider variety of resources, so I would recommend it more often.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is more secure and better documented. So Oracle could learn from them when it comes to security and documentation.

I recommend it to my customers. Overall, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

I have used Oracle Solaris for applications, especially to install and run the applications.

I like the solution's from a cost perspective. Also, it's pretty stable on Azure, considering that we cannot use it on IEX. So, for that, Oracle is available.

I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle. The aforementioned detail can be considered for improvement.

I have been using Oracle Solaris for a few years.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we haven't faced any issues. I find it pretty stable on Linux.

We have a different team for contacting Oracle's technical support.

I have used other solutions, but it comes under the platform team, and they are the ones who interact with Oracle's technical support. I cannot comment on the performance because they are interacting with the tech support of other people. So for us, it's more on the application.

Regarding the setup, if you say the application, it is pretty easy.

The solution can be deployed on Linux, Oracle, or Azure and not on IEX.

For me, it works fine. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

I primarily use Solaris for installing software application servers like WebLogic.

Solaris' best feature is its stability.

There is an issue where Solaris doesn't give the correct figures for memory use when checked.

I've been working with Solaris for seven years.

Solaris' stability and reliability is one of its best features.

Solaris is scalable.

Oracle's technical support is good but slow.

I previously worked with Red Hat.

Solaris is highly priced compared to other solutions, but since it's a niche product, this is to be expected.

I would give Solaris a rating of eight out of ten.

I mainly used Solaris as a batch server.

Solaris's best features are high availability, robustness, and database hosting. Its file management system is also better than Linux.

Solaris' package management could be improved, especially in comparison to Linux.

Solaris' stability is rock solid.

The on-premise version of Solaris is scalable, but the cloud version isn't so much.

I would definitely recommend Solaris as an operating system to hold huge databases. I would give Solaris a rating of seven out of ten.

Our primary use case is the storage of logged information from several IoT devices.

We have found the performance features, some partitioning features, compression features, storage features, and the PL/SQL language features to be very valuable.

The administration features are also very useful.

The product is very expensive. 

The Solaris code is open, and the documentation is accessible to all, not only to registered users. Also, the documentation does not support some solutions, and there are no other options.

I've been using this solution for nine years.

Oracle Solaris is stable and reliable.

The initial setup can be complex if you don't have a lot of experience. The deployment can take anywhere from days to months.

It is a very expensive product.

This product is stable, has good documentation, lots of solutions, a big community, and good support. Oracle Solaris is a good product, but it is expensive.

Therefore, I would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We primarily use Solaris for compute storage. It is a server product that runs databases.

Our current equipment that Oracle Solaris runs on is approximately five years old and I only deal with it occasionally. This is a legacy product for us now and times have moved on.

This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system.

This product is not as flexible as other similar solutions on the market today. Times have moved on and there are newer operating systems that are better to use and more compatible with current technology.

I began working with Oracle Solaris between 15 and 16 years ago.

This is a stable product.

We've moved to other products recently, so scalability is no longer an issue for us. That said, the legacy version was slightly fixed.

We had approximately 25,000 end-users in some form or another.

We used to deal with technical support for this product. However, because it's older and things have not been changing, we have not had any recent experience with them.

When we were installing this product, it was straightforward. We haven't installed one in a while. It used to be maintained by our network team but as it's now a legacy product for us, we do not have dedicated staff to take care of it.

We were implementing this product with our in-house team.

There are no licensing fees but you can opt to pay for support.

The suitability of this product depends on the use case. There are other products that are more flexible and better to use these days. It was stable, so I would recommend it for some cases but more often than not, we wouldn't use it anymore.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We are using Oracle Solaris for an external data center. We switched to Oracle Solaris because we outsourced Oracle to a third party and they went from Oracle Linux to Solaris because of license issues with Oracle Linux. We had to then go over as well for some functionality reasons, such as to do hard partitioning. We were able to minimize the number of CPU cores available for Oracle Linux which help save money because we did not have to pay full price.

We do not use Solaris in general terms because we are end-users, we are an application service provider. We have an external party that delivers us an Oracle database and the platform underneath the Oracle database is agnostic to us. We do not care about it as long as we have an Oracle database running. My team, which are technicians, is completely not involved in the Solaris platform. We just have an Oracle database running where a third party takes care of it, and they choose Solaris because of license issues.

When we switch over to Solaris it was not easy because we had some troubles with the performance. Solaris is from Oracle and you would expect that it would run flawlessly, but we had some issues in sizing the previous Linux environment to the Solaris environment.

I have been using this solution for approximately one year.

The stability of the solution is good.

Oracle Solaris is scalable. However, this depends on the hardware that is running in the environment but this is not the fault of the solution if the hardware is not adequate.

Our standard platform is VMware and Oracle Solaris runs fine on VMware, but if you have VMware running on it, you do not get support.

I have used Oracle and Red Hat Linux previously.

The initial setup is straightforward.

If you have a 20 or 30-core CPU underneath Oracle, they expect you to pay for all the cores, although the VM only has assigned a couple of them. They are very difficult license-wise and that is the reason why we went to Oracle Solaris. We were presented this option by our external advisor to prohibit extensive Oracle Linux costs.

We have a lot of government organizations here in Holland leaving Oracle. It is not a bad solution, it is a perfect solution because we have used it for more than 25 years and have never lost one record. It is technically a good solution, but the licensing and sales issues, people are really annoyed about and many Dutch organizations are going over to other solutions. For example, Postgres databases or EnterpriseDB, which is a commercial version of Postgres. They are more cost-efficient if you speak to sales teams.

The price is not good and needs to improve. What was surprising to us was that our Oracle databases run better with fewer resources on Linux than they did on Solaris. We found that strange because if Oracle brings out the new version of their database it is almost always firstly brought out on their own platforms, such as Solaris. You would expect that Solaris would work the best. However, in our case, it did not, there is something wrong with the resources in Solaris.

I have evaluated the Postgres database and Enterprise database.

I would prefer Linux then Oracle Solaris because it is more open. If you are in a commercial environment, then use a commercial Linux version, not a free version. We have seven customers using Red Hat, the support is very good, and there are hardly any issues.

I will not recommend Solaris because of the attitude of Oracle, what we have experienced in the database, how they handle licenses, and legally. They are not a company that is fair and are very aggressively trying to get money. However, they provide a solid solution.

I rate Oracle Solaris a nine out of ten.