Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)	Score 9.2 out of 10	N/A	Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.	N/A

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	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Considered Both Products	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) DC Damian Carbonari IT Specialist Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) We feel comfortable with any linux distribution. Sometimes the decision about using one or other linux distribution is related to the cost of subscriptions, level of criticity of the system, and support requirements. We always chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) products got more features compared to normal linux cloud servers. That's what makes it suitable for critical business applications. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) It is cheaper and widely used, and in some cases even better OS (then Solaris for example) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) We chose RHEL over other Linux distributions because of its enterprise support, stability, and security features. Compared to alternatives like Ubuntu or CentOS, RHEL offers more extended lifecycle support. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL provides more support and has a bigger community, RHEL is a more mature product and has Fedora and Centos as upstream products to help make it more stable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Rocky Linux. CentOS, Arch about every distribution of Linux. Stability and reliability are king and the support. If something happens or you just hit a bug, that's why you go to Red Hat. Incentivized Helpful? VW Victor Williams Linux Administrator Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) It's superior. I mean they're all Linux so it's all that code, but I find that the intangibles that you get with Red Hat, meaning the enterprise support, the lifecycle, that's what clearly makes it better than the rest of them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Ubuntu ssa. Most other Linux platforms I've used. It's better in some areas. It's not as good in the sum. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Windows 11 has more stability and great functionality compared to older windows versions, and the gap between windows and Linux has shortened. You can pick from different OS’s to build enterprise level software on nowadays. But Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is still among the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Direct competitor on an os level. RHEL just has a better feel and usability. I feel more comfortable with it. Both work. But RHEL is my preference Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) due to support options, long term experience and as certified os for sap Incentivized Helpful? Ric Juse Sr systems engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Suse is too complicated once they trapped you into using the UI for configuration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Far better vendor experience and support compared to Oracle. Better security and update cadence compared to CentOS. Better docs with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and the ability to bring data together though Red Hat Insights is a powerful tool. This helps feed into other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL because of more wide adoption, stability, general knowledge on the platform and less nonsensical approach to various platform functionalities Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) I much prefer Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) over Windows. There is way more customization and flexibility, and being able to use Linux as the OS over Windows gives additional flexibility for various use cases. I prefer the intuitive use cases of Mac, but the lack of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL helps us provide better service to our customers and to help them to make the best decisions for their business in order to achieve better customer satisfaction in the future and in the long run to achieve better outcomes for the company in the future. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) There isn't a big difference but they do not have the same level of support. Linux overall has come a long way Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) RHEL Enterprise support is better than Ubuntu. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Small Businesses	Ubuntu Score 8.8 out of 10
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Enterprises	Ubuntu Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (222 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (114 ratings)
Availability	8.2 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.3 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.2 (9 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.3 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized VW Victor Williams Linux Administrator Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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. Incentivized Marc Shaffer CEO Read full review
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Red Hat Product support and regular patches. Incentivized Unnikrishnan Kurumbur Palamadathil Architect Read full review
Performance	Red Hat As with any OS enhanced testing will need to be done prior to application integration. Incentivized Unnikrishnan Kurumbur Palamadathil Architect Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	Red Hat Don't be afraid of it, its easy to install and configure for the tasks needed. Incentivized Marc Shaffer CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized JS Joe Seegmiller Platform Engineer Read full review
Scalability	Red Hat Operational ease of use backed by support Incentivized Unnikrishnan Kurumbur Palamadathil Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized JW Jonathan Woodard Systems Engineer Read full review
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