IBM AIX vs. Oracle Solaris

IBM AIX

87 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle Solaris

24 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM AIX	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	IBM AIX (for Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a Unix operating system, developed, offered and supported by IBM.	N/A
Oracle Solaris	Score8.1 out of 10	N/A	Oracle Solaris is a Linux operating system which was originally developed by Sun Microsystems and became an Oracle product after the acquisition of Sun in 2010.	$1,000 per year

Pricing

IBM AIX

Oracle Solaris

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Pricing Offerings
IBM AIX	Oracle Solaris
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	IBM AIX	Oracle Solaris
Considered Both Products	IBM Verified User Chose IBM AIX IBM AIX operating system is advanced with most features and also it's more reliable unlike Redhat Linux, Sun solaris, HP-UX and also we will have well support from the vendor if we run into any issues. IBM AIX is more user-friendly when compared to linux and easy to use so i … Incentivized Helpful? Alexandre Carvalho Information Technology Engineer in Information Technology at Navy Federal Credit Union (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM AIX AIX is more stable is more administrative friendly, being the commands do not change every few years like in Solaris. Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle Luis Rogelio Toledo Giron Oracle DBA in Information Technology at Telefónica (Telecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Oracle Solaris Oracle Solaris is Scalable, have a good patching capability and secure by default. You want to have something that's up and running and stable, something that's not going to crash. But if we do have an issue, we can get somebody for technical support who can help us work … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	IBM AIX	Oracle Solaris
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (11 ratings)	9.3 (4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	7.5 (2 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)