We performed a comparison between Oracle Solaris and Windows Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The backup capabilities are quite good."
"Its networking has helped me combine the power of a neural network with the benefits of virtualization to improve the AI's performance."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we haven't faced any issues."
"Solaris is scalable because they have their own file system, like CFS."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Oracle Solaris is pre-installed in our environment. Thus, it is simple to customize."
"It stands out for its exceptional stability."
"This product handles databases well; they run on top of the operating system."
"The most valuable features are the ease of access and maintaining the solution."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the Active Directory. I have had good experience with Windows Server."
"The features that I like the most are that it's easy to use and the integration."
"The product can scale."
"Since Windows Server has a graphical user interface (GUI), it is easy to use and implement the services that we are using."
"Overall the solution has been functioning very well for us."
"We like the ease of use, stability and performance of Windows Server."
"If it could support other file systems, it would be better."
"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."
"They could also enable Oracle OEM for x86 architecture as well."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"I don't want to receive any updates on Oracle"
"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."
"It would be helpful if the solution offered backend management. In the 11.4 version, Oracle added a management console. It would be great if we maybe had a user management tool to go with it."
"Currently, there are two variants, there's SPARC and there's x86. I would have wanted a scenario where they're all just one product."
"I would like Windows to come up lighter because the footprint itself can consume more than 300GB. It would probably take close to 100GB of space to install a Windows operating system because it has got so many features."
"The stability could be improved."
"The command-line interface should be improved."
"Security is the main feature that needs improvement"
"We encounter issues related to the product's UI when multiple users access the same machine."
"When it comes to virtualization, VMware is a bit more advanced in terms of security. Hyper-V does provide facilities, but it probably has to do a bit more work in terms of encryption. People will normally go for VMware because of the features that it has as a server, particularly the virtualization feature."
"The user interface could be simplified."
"When it comes to the performance of this solution others are slightly better such as Linux."
Oracle Solaris is ranked 8th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 48 reviews while Windows Server is ranked 4th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 180 reviews. Oracle Solaris is rated 8.6, while Windows Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Oracle Solaris writes "Improve flexibility, automate DR process, and speed up recovery time using Zones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server writes "Easy to setup, stable and caters to my wide range of use cases but lacks user-friendly interface". Oracle Solaris is most compared with Oracle Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10 and Google Chrome Enterprise, whereas Windows Server is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux. See our Oracle Solaris vs. Windows Server report.
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