Great opportunity for the Linux oriented enterprise customers
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Linux
We are currently using the Oracle Linux 8U4 (8.4) for testing purposes: emulation of the different issues with our software in the customer environment. This gives us the opportunity to reproduce the issues on our VMs and find the proper solution without the risk of making any harm to the client's infrastructure ecosystem.
Pros
- Good support of the different hardware.
- Great stability.
- Regular updates.
- Access to binary files and the source code.
- Possibility to tailor the system and support subscription plan to the customer demands.
- Multiplatform support.
Cons
- On the older versions, there were [periodical] issues with a kernel panic after starting the tun interface.
- Periodic problems of deploying the readymade OVA images from the download center to ESXI and Virtualbox.
- Slow GUI in VM on older releases (6.2).
- It gives the better stability and protection level for our customers.
- Better SLA.
- It is wide-known and reliable.
- CentOS Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Though all of these distributives are RPM-based, only CentOS and Oracle Linux have opportunities to use them free of charge on a daily basis. In a difference of CentOS, Oracle Linux have better update support of DBS as well as the RHEL repos and the applications of the Oracle portfolio. For the CentOS users, there is a possibility to migrate into Oracle Linux with help of centos2ol. SH script and I would personally recommend trying that.
Do you think Oracle Linux delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Oracle Linux's feature set?
Yes
Did Oracle Linux live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Oracle Linux go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Oracle Linux again?
Yes
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