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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution mainly used in commercial data centers.N/A

    Rocky Linux

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/ARocky Linux is a community enterprise Operating System designed to be 1:1 compatible with Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

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    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Rocky Linux
    Editions & Modules
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    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Rocky Linux
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Rocky Linux
    Considered Both Products
    Red Hat
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) gave us better support to us comparing to CIQ providing Rocky Linux.
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    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
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the goto Linux operating system compared to Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux when you need / want an RPM based operating system, no questions asked. Some applications only support Debian based operating systems which is disappointing, and thus Ubuntu is the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    In our experience, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) support structure is highly stable and dependable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    the most is support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    I think RHEL excels in keeping the OS up to date vs the others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    RHEL is the most reliable and what our organization prefers
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    The OS is much easier to manage at scale in an enterprise environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    RHEL is not only OS but a community, support, various other products
    Incentivized
    Chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    They’re all built from similar if not identical sources so they’re all compatible and often interchangable.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    256 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    295 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    194 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    259 Answers
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    Features
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Rocky Linux
    Operating System
    Comparison of Operating System features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Rocky Linux
    Feature
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    8.3
    84 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Rocky Linux
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    Ratings
    File Management8.079 Ratings00 Ratings
    Software Application Management7.981 Ratings00 Ratings
    System Update Frequency7.982 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating System Security9.384 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Rocky Linux
    Small Businesses
    CentOS Linux (EOL)
    Score9 out of 10
    CentOS Linux (EOL)
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM AIX
    Score9.3 out of 10
    IBM AIX
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ubuntu
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Rocky Linux
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (308 ratings)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.6
    (4 ratings)
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    Usability
    8.7
    (200 ratings)
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    Availability
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
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    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
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    Configurability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
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    Professional Services
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)Rocky Linux
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Red Hat
    There's a lot of things that can and can't be discussed. But as I mentioned earlier, cloud computing and on-prem, and very much like in the cloud, having a standard image ISO, deploying that, the configurations with Ansible or packages installed via Ansible, instead of just a Kickstart script, you have a set of scripts that run in a pipeline that deploy Red Hat. So I'd say the environments, every time I've used Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a computing solution has been, like I mentioned, reusable, scalable, positive. And I don't think I've ever found any situations where I wish I were using something other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux, because the support is not there for anything else as much as it is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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    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.
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    Cons
    Red Hat
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) needs better built-in developer-centric tooling.
    • The desktop experience is too barebones, which makes it less attractive for developer workstations.
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) needs to be integrated and available in GItHub Actions as a supported platform so code developed on GitHub can be tested and qualified there.
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    Open Source
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Red Hat
    Definitely going to renew as our core applications run on RHEL and we have been using RHEL for many years now. Prior to RHEL I used to use Solaris OS, AIX and HPUX, this has helped me with the skills required for RHEL. I have not had any additional certification for RHEL, but maybe that will help in long run
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    Usability
    Red Hat
    It's pretty intuitive and easy to use. Everything is adjustable; everything is customizable through a set of yaml's and everything can be undone and re-done. Doing items such a modification and restarting the single app doesnt take down the whole operating system like one of the more popular GUI based operating systems. We can work on live production systems without breaking into a sweat.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Red Hat
    I'm not sure if I understand the question. We have had scenarios where in the applications within the RHEL deployments have crashed or error out, which has made us debug and resolve the cause within the applications, but we have not used any availability feature within RHEL to recover from such scenarios
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    Performance
    Red Hat
    We have compared the performance of Postgres SQL database on windows and RHEL server and have considerably found the performance better on RHEL. Even with less resources, example CPU and memory allocated, the database or other applications perform better on RHEL. This is the primary reason we deploy RHEL in our environment
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    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.
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    Implementation Rating
    Red Hat
    I primarily implement the RHEL platform for the deployment of our backup applications. I'm satisfied from the step of deployment, to registering and then setting up our applications. Specially the databases perform the best on this platform.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Red Hat
    Windows Server can take a long time to patch, waiting for the patch to install, then waiting to apply, after the OS is rebooted it can also take additional time to apply the update. Often times Windows Server patches can fail, leading to long troubleshooting times and application outages. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Patching is extremely quick, I've honestly not seen a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) update fail to install in many years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) patching.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Red Hat
    I have insisted and have got RHEL purchased by my team and feel if the unit price can be lowered, it will help us with more deployments.
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    Scalability
    Red Hat
    I have mentioned multiple times in my earlier comments about how scalable and flexible RHEL is and that helps with deployments and expansions in our organization
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    Professional Services
    Red Hat
    We have not used professional services for RHEL and have to skip this question, but not sure how to skip.
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    Return on Investment
    Red Hat
    • It has done wonders for my career because I come from a Linux background, HPUX, Solaris and AIX. So made this transition to Linux 20 years ago. So it has really put my career at the forefront of what we do in the company. We're still primarily a window shop, but with Red Hat and what they're doing with the Kubernetes integration with OpenShift, with the East Satellite Management, the Ansible stuff, all based on Red Hat. It's taken off at my company and we're very happy about it.
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