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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OCI

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.N/A

    VMware Workstation Player

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AVMware Workstation 17 Player is a platform for running a single virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC to deliver managed corporate desktops. Organizations can use Workstation Player to deliver managed corporate desktops, while students and educators use it for learning and training.N/A
    Pricing
    OCIVMware Workstation Player
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OCIVMware Workstation Player
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OCIVMware Workstation Player
    Considered Both Products
    Oracle
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    119 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    111 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    117 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    104 Answers
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    Features
    OCIVMware Workstation Player
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and VMware Workstation Player
    Feature
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    7.9
    138 Ratings
    4% below category average
    VMware Workstation Player
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.4133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.2122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates6.9122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools7.3133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images7.6120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support7.4132 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.3134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.996 Ratings00 Ratings
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    OCIVMware Workstation Player
    Small Businesses
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    VMware Fusion
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    VMware Fusion
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    Amazon WorkSpaces
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OCIVMware Workstation Player
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (150 ratings)
    6.9
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (28 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (20 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.3
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OCIVMware Workstation Player
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Oracle
    As per our usage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for almost 6 years hosting 500 + customers I can say its well suited application for any small scale to larger scale application as it can handle that capacity and provide more reliable cloud service only if you need any messaging service like pub/sub or sqs better to consider other services.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware will work great for the following test scenarios:
    • Testing windows updates on a system
    • Testing a new software or a new software version
    • Creating a sandbox to test options/features of an OS
    • Creating different VM to test a software on different OS without the need to have physical machines for all of them
    You can also use it as a "player" only where you have that static VM that you run from time to time as with my use for SAS University. Whenever you need to use the software, you simply start that VM.
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    Pros
    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a generous free tier, moreso than other hyperscalers, with an always-free tier that guarantees certain products are always free
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows you to size VMs with differing combinations of CPU and RAM, which is contrary to other hyperscalers that have specific pre-defined combinations only
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure regularly provides free certification exam offers
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • VMware Player is easy to use.
    • VMware Player supports a wide variety operating systems.
    • Unity mode makes it easy for the end user to utilize needed legacy applications while maintaining their familiar Host OS desktop. It's seamless to the point where the end user doesn't know they're running applications from a VM.
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    Cons
    Oracle
    • Navigating the UI takes lots of getting used to. It reminds me of older GCP (just to get used to where everything is).
    • Permission for different things always seemed to be more difficult than it really needed to be. Once you got them set up you were good but updating anything or creating new permissions for just about anything took longer than I thought it should.
    • Based on how the buttons were laid out, it was pretty easy to delete all of your DNS records, and backing them up was not as intuitive as I'd like with the UI, but it was easy to do using a script.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Would be nice to use more VMs at once, but this is basically trial software, so it's hard to fault them.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Oracle
    Reliability: Very dependable and stable OCI services have been for the business operations.Performance: The speed and efficiency of OCI in meeting their computing and storage needs.Scalability: The ease and effectiveness of scaling resources up or down to accommodate changing demands.Security: The robustness and effectiveness of OCI's security features in protecting their data and applications.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    I give a rating of 8 because VMware Player has its use cases, for example it requires the host OS to be logged in, and the VMware Player application to be opened and the Guest VM started. Only one VM can run at a time. I'd give a 9/10 to VMware Workstation because you can run shared VMs at startup without logging in or starting the workstation application. and i'd give ESX a 10/10 because ESX is the leader in enterprise visualization.
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    Usability
    Oracle
    The services & products in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure needs more improvement to beat other Cloud service providers. The price is good & Security processes are good. We are requiring to put more effort in supporting this Oracle Cloud Infrastructure than other Cloud service providers. Probably better ways are there but is not super easy to find or not super available
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Great product. Its user-friendly GUI and overall performance are really the biggest strength of this tool. The reason why I don't give a higher note is because of the price. Although it's decent (starting at around $200 for a license), there is a good free alternative in VirtualBox. Not everyone values friendly GUI as something worth paying for. For people that are more tech-savvy, I would recommend looking into VirtualBox as they might actually like the model better (with downloadable add-ons and packages).
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    Reliability and Availability
    Oracle
    Yeah sometimes we had to face unplanned outages due to underlying infrastructure issues, so not every time,e but once in a while we face issues with availability. But the good thing is we have redundancy with DR setup and multi region so we can manage.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Performance
    Oracle
    From the start, I was surprised by response times and image quality accessing windows VMs with RDP. GCP, Azure and -many offerings in AWS- don't perform this speed. Also, that's evident in the quality of Infrastructure Management Team, because I just received one warning regarding a region failure, what confirms that's a mature platform.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Integration isn't really relevant here but I see this question more as an OS compatibility for the VM. They state that they support over 200 different OS versions. I honestly have never tried anything else other than Ubuntu and Windows myself but nonetheless, this is impressive. I have not hit any limitation in my use of this software in terms of limitation or conflicts with other software.
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    Support Rating
    Oracle
    Overall it is amazing, there is always room for improvement. We have weekly updates that tend to slow the program used more and more. We had to change some reports within Oracle because the others wouldn’t load. This is tied to our payroll and the delays are causing many time constraint issues and panic. We have to create a new report when one breaks. Otherwise awesome!
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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware support is very knowledgeable on their products, eveything from AirWatch to ESX clusters. VMware is easy to contact, they stay in touch and see the issue through to the end and a final resolution. They keep you up to date on your issue status and don't leave you waiting for answers.
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    In-Person Training
    Oracle
    Effective training provided, much data productivity while doing training
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Online Training
    Oracle
    detailed and easy to understand.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Implementation Rating
    Oracle
    Very much satisifed with the Oracle Support team during the implementation and Migration of applications
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Installing the application was easily completed on the twenty computers that needed VMware Player. Once those 20 users were configured we copied our virtual machine template to the 20 users and turned on their newly provisioned virtual machines. We then configured unity mode so the user could easily work from within the virtual machine from their host desktop.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Oracle
    We used Microsoft Azure and Docker earlier and faced some difficulties like Microsoft Azure and Docker. Occasionally, the generation of large images can delay deployment. It is also necessary for me to admit that Microsoft Azure and Docker have a somewhat steep learning curve. Proper paperwork needs to be there. Docker has issues with performance on a number of platforms. On the other hand, OCI is easy to deploy and easy to understand.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Both free, VMware supports USB 3.0 while VirtualBox does not. VMware supports nested hardware-assisted virtualization while VirtualBox does not.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Oracle
    was not part of initial purchase team. Anyways, i think unit pricing and billing frequency is good compared to other Cloud service providers, when it comes to Cloud Capital expenditure & Operational expenditure. Would be more interested in exploring more options where customers can get more cost relaxations on trying out new cloud services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for example a new App or a feature
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Scalability
    Oracle
    We have hosted around 500 + customers on this cloud so till day not faced any major issues, so we can use it for any kind of products and it can hold the load and easily scale based on need.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Professional Services
    Oracle
    Services & Infra wise is ok to use & host applications & services. Security wise also good for a Cloud service provider. It is a interesting area to explore & using it for day to day needs can be further improvised in future probably. Modern day Services like AI and Machine learning could be improved
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud helps us build and deploy apps quickly, getting our products out the door faster.
    • With real-time insights from Oracle Cloud, we can give customers personalized experiences that boost satisfaction.
    • Migrating to Oracle saves us cash on hardware and maintenance, which we can use for innovation and growth.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • A positive impact is that it require little to no funding to use.
    • Negative impact is that because it is free it can be hard to get support.
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    ScreenShots

    OCI Screenshots

    Screenshot of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Global FootprintScreenshot of 2-5x Faster Performance vs On-premises and Other Clouds (Storage Review)Screenshot of One Cloud for the Most Intensive Enterprise and Infra-heavy WorkloadsScreenshot of Gen 1 vs Gen 2 Cloud AdvantageScreenshot of Always Free Services