Oracle Linux Pros and Cons

Linux's open-source capability has helped our organization deploy the Rise Vision Application. Having to pay for licenses for Windows would have increased our expenses and decrease our Yearly Budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only notable downside of Linux is the learning curve associated with moving to it from a background in Windows. This has led me to have to take time out on my own to learn and understand the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Integration between Oracle Linux with other OCI products is excellent. Oracle Linux does good resource(CPU,RAM) management.

The best thing why we started using Oracle Linux is the security and reliability

We have moved our resources to oracle Linux due to its ability to work with high workload Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Licensing costs associated with each instance add up to your cloud bill.

Till the number of users who are using Oracle Linux is less. So you wont find much of help online if you are troubleshooting the issue

The user interface is not up to the notch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

High performance, Compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its good product but It has Commercial support costs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very fast, lot of customization etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not every application is supported on the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to serach the report. and collect the data with proper date and time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On oracle you will not find anything that you dont like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Linux is the best OS so far i have used in my entire carrier. It is almost same as redhat linux and you also get a same feel like you are using redhat linux. The best part of oracle linux is their support team which is far better than redhat support. And moreover its cheaper and we are also planning to use oracle cloud computing for future business plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing which i dislike about this product. Even the support team is way ahead than RHEL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Linux supports virtualization, easy management for hybrid and multi- cloud environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A composite solution having all the features for smooth business operations so no dislike as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Linux is very useful for long-term usage because of its pricing plan and it is very cost-effective as compared to other cloud VM providers plus oracle linux is very good for development and production purpose. Oracle Linux is general purpose OS so we can use it as per our requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oracle Linux is good but as compared to other vendors oracle doesn't provide so much add-ons services as compare to other vendors this will specifically apply for production usage for development purposes or use oracle Linux in production with customization that it is good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

full control to add/remove needed software, free, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Many needed accessories are missing in the base version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since the OS is designed specifically for running a database instance and its services, everything is more streamlined, robust, reliable and the performance is as good as it gets. Adding the fact that its essentially free and you only pay for support makes it an ideal choice for SME. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you plan on running many services on a single server that does not have support for Linux, you don't have a choice but to virtualize Oracle Linux or go for the Windows version of Oracle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.