IBM LinuxONE vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM LinuxONE
Score 9.0 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 9.3 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.
Best Alternatives
IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Small Businesses
Dell PowerEdge
Dell PowerEdge
Score 9.0 out of 10
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
HPE ProLiant DL
HPE ProLiant DL
Score 8.5 out of 10
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Z
IBM Z
Score 9.4 out of 10
Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM LinuxONERed Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
9.2
(222 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(114 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is well suited for cloud environments, fast deployments and to run non-intensive apps/tools (with low memory and low cpu consumption).Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) might not be suited for really huge databases and intensive CPU processing.
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Pros
IBM
  • Valuable insights from the reports
  • Scalable
  • Easy to manage different data centers
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Red Hat
  • Virtualization, like the operating system level task. I see this product is very good and it blends very well with the middleware components like all the JBoss and other things. And other than that, either you install it or a virtual machine or physical servers, it works seamlessly anywhere. And if you want to go further, like Red Hat OpenShift or those things also work very nice with it.
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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
  • In the LEAP process. The upgrading process, which I'm hearing, like I said it before, prior that I was on rail seven, eight, and nine. Trying to get all of that to rail nine and stay current. The LEAP process from seven to eight is a little bit less than desired. I've talked to some people that from once you get on eight from eight to nine to nine to 10 is a breeze. So I'm looking forward to that.
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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
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distro is the simplest enterprise version of Red Hat that is enterprise supported and when you deploy as many VMs as we do, it is vital to have that enterprise support. On top of the enterprise support, having access to a commercially supported backbone for updates and upgrades is a huge plus.
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
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Red Hat
Product support and regular patches.
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Performance
IBM
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Red Hat
As with any OS enhanced testing will need to be done prior to application integration.
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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
So we in our company have used Ubuntu as well. Sometimes we have to use that because a certain application installer requires that we use that operating system, but we really don't prefer it just because it doesn't come with the same Add-on features that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) really great, like Red Hat Insights or Red Hat satellite, things like that. They come package with it. So that would be the main one. I've also used things like FreeBSD, but I think that's just too old at this point to care.
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Scalability
IBM
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Red Hat
Operational ease of use backed by support
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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
  • RHEL provides a good base OS and additional tool sets for various deployments.
  • We are able to use Satellite to manage hundreds of OS's behind our corporate firewall. No other OS provides the level that RHEL does.
  • It is a known good quantity. Their support for the OS is amazing.
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