IBM LinuxONE vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM LinuxONE
Score 6.9 out of 10
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IBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.N/A
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.N/A
Pricing
IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIndividual pricing on request
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Community Pulse
IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Considered Both Products
IBM LinuxONE

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Beats them all for reliability, security, ease of use and setup, as well as patching. It has fewer support problems and is easily serviced. Support is easy to find and quite helpful. Windows crashed all the time and Azure was at times spotty.
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IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Small Businesses
Dell PowerEdge R
Dell PowerEdge R
Score 8.5 out of 10
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
HPE ProLiant DL
HPE ProLiant DL
Score 7.5 out of 10
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Z
IBM Z
Score 9.3 out of 10
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
9.6
(52 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
IBM LinuxONE dashboard is clean and friendly to welcome new users and the capabilities of the feature are excellent and easy to pull multiple data from other third parties platforms through the IBM LinuxONE integration functions and the data merging tools are very excellent. Multiple data processing operations are easily managed and monitored through this software and the reports are effective.
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Red Hat
I guess to give it more context, my first job in the Linux ecosystem was in web hosting. And that was basically a Cintas shop and it was all run extremely lean and very bootstrappy do it on your own. You don't get any support. And for that environment, it was kind of just the way it is. It's very cutthroat. You have to move super fast. Once I moved over to the corporate side, every company I've worked with has been on rail. And the thing that really kind of makes it the best choice compared to using another operating system, another flavor of Linux and just kind of figuring out your own is the amount of support that Red Hat gives rail as far as extra tools like Satellite Insights and what's coming up now with Ansible and especially Ansible. Lightspeed, but also SLAs and stuff like that. Because yeah, I mean it was good learning in that first environment because there were no tickets, there was no support. It was figured out. But nowadays it's just nice to have an SLA agreement. I can just open a ticket. I say that that's something that does really well, but I also want to see it expanded, just more like vendor support at an enterprise level. I'm not sure yet what that would mean. I just have that every time we come up for renewal, I look at the price tag and it's like, what else can we do here? I like what Red Hat is doing just more.
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Pros
IBM
  • Valuable insights from the reports
  • Scalable
  • Easy to manage different data centers
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Red Hat
  • For us, it's going to be the deployment and the patching. It does a good job because you can put your no reboot tags and things like that because working with production systems and so we don't want them just rebooting suddenly because they were patched in the Linux world. So the non-reboot tags and the operating system deployment is the biggest thing we find that saves time and that's the biggest thing that we like. The tools. The tools that save time.
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Cons
IBM
  • We had some milestones we did not meet due to technical issues, we had to get those escalated and finally got them resolved.
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Red Hat
  • From an automation perspective. RHEL is really moving forward, but some of their ideas are still not ideas, but their implementations of it still feel half-baked, like the functionality's there, but it's not the kind of functionality that to me makes it a full-on solution with OpenShift in particular as we're bringing this in and we're getting more into containers because it's more important for the banking industry and other industries. Justice General, well you can do this by script and we don't have an interface for this and sort of things sort of like that. I'm trying to think if there's anything else that RHEL does that bothers me as a general rule.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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Red Hat
We find RHEL to be a superior OS with stable operations and long life. It is also easier to use and fix then most other OS's.
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Usability
IBM
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Red Hat
RHEL has most of the features that are required by an ERP solution. If you need any additional packages, RHEL has a great repository and a very easy package installation/upgrade process.
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Support Rating
IBM
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Red Hat
Red Hat support has really come a long way in the last 10 years, The general support is great, and the specialized product support teams are extremely knowledgeable about their specific products. Response time is good and you never need to escalate.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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Red Hat
Don't be afraid of it, its easy to install and configure for the tasks needed.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics.
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Red Hat
The biggest thing about RHEL that makes it stand out for enterprise users is the support that we get from the vendor. Whereas with the other ones, you're basically left on your own. There's no official repo, there's no satellite for patching. You're very left on your own with the community.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Pulling of multiple and big data from different channels.
  • Project workflow management is effective via the tool.
  • Project data processing and data management.
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Red Hat
  • Auditors are happy that we use an enterprise class distribution
  • Patch process is easy and fairly predictable
  • Information Security is fully satisfied with the speed of the fixing the errata and general state of the security patches, including the backporting process
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