Oracle products are usually fine-tuned with the software of other Oracle products, like Oracle WebLogic Server Services, Oracle Database, and Oracle Core Banking Software and Solutions, as all the aforementioned products work very well with Oracle SPARC Servers. Oracle SPARC Servers should be fine-tuned well enough to work with the other servers and software products in the market, as it is an area where Oracle SPARC Servers lack. The most challenging part concerning the product arises from the pricing model of the solution. Most of my company's clients state that Oracle SPARC Servers are costlier than the other servers available in the market, like the ones provided by IBM and the other normal line of servers. With the solution's technical support, the turnaround time is high, making it an area of concern where improvements are required. When my company raises issues with the technical support team, we expect them to reach out to us within two days, but the support team's turnaround time goes beyond fifteen days.
Sr. Manager - System Analyst (Datacenter Infrastructure) at Sohar International
Real User
Feb 3, 2023
Oracle doesn't have a good roadmap for the solution because they are moving to the x86 platform. Oracle is focusing on the cloud platform with a PCA and standard x86 architecture. Linux is their other OS and is mostly in the cloud. We don't see much development happening on Solaris even though it came as an acquisition from Sun Microsystems. Eventually, the solution and its platform will die because there has been no new development on the Solaris end and we haven't seen new servers in the last five years. At this point, we are pretty sure there is no real roadmap or future for the solution. There is a shortage of expert engineers because Oracle is not pushing the technology. It is hard for us to find engineers because the number of people supporting us has considerably reduced.
They have declared the end of life of the hardware, so they should ensure they have support for existing customers. There is a feature in IBM that I would like to see here. IBM has a feature where you can have a system backup, so whenever you want to restore, you just put in the backup, give it a phone, and it will restore.
There is a huge difference between the M Series and the T Series. They need some sort of modeling because IBM has different types of models. If I'm calculating the M Series, there is a large amount of core. The T Series has less, but there is no actual model we can fix up. When we actually require some support, we are going for the logical partitioning for two. At that point, when you are calculating processing power and memory, IBM offers more choices, whereas it's actually very difficult for Oracle.
Infrastructure Manager - Oracle SCM at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Nov 18, 2021
The solution could improve by giving a clear roadmap about the future. I'm not seeing a lot of improvements on the OS side of the software. They need to work more on the operating system.
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Oracle SPARC Servers are fine as they are. There are no additional improvements needed for Oracle SPARC Servers that I haven't mentioned yet.
Oracle products are usually fine-tuned with the software of other Oracle products, like Oracle WebLogic Server Services, Oracle Database, and Oracle Core Banking Software and Solutions, as all the aforementioned products work very well with Oracle SPARC Servers. Oracle SPARC Servers should be fine-tuned well enough to work with the other servers and software products in the market, as it is an area where Oracle SPARC Servers lack. The most challenging part concerning the product arises from the pricing model of the solution. Most of my company's clients state that Oracle SPARC Servers are costlier than the other servers available in the market, like the ones provided by IBM and the other normal line of servers. With the solution's technical support, the turnaround time is high, making it an area of concern where improvements are required. When my company raises issues with the technical support team, we expect them to reach out to us within two days, but the support team's turnaround time goes beyond fifteen days.
Like IBM, Oracle SPARC Servers should be able to run other open operating systems like Linux.
Oracle doesn't have a good roadmap for the solution because they are moving to the x86 platform. Oracle is focusing on the cloud platform with a PCA and standard x86 architecture. Linux is their other OS and is mostly in the cloud. We don't see much development happening on Solaris even though it came as an acquisition from Sun Microsystems. Eventually, the solution and its platform will die because there has been no new development on the Solaris end and we haven't seen new servers in the last five years. At this point, we are pretty sure there is no real roadmap or future for the solution. There is a shortage of expert engineers because Oracle is not pushing the technology. It is hard for us to find engineers because the number of people supporting us has considerably reduced.
They have declared the end of life of the hardware, so they should ensure they have support for existing customers. There is a feature in IBM that I would like to see here. IBM has a feature where you can have a system backup, so whenever you want to restore, you just put in the backup, give it a phone, and it will restore.
I would like to see a reduced price point.
There is a huge difference between the M Series and the T Series. They need some sort of modeling because IBM has different types of models. If I'm calculating the M Series, there is a large amount of core. The T Series has less, but there is no actual model we can fix up. When we actually require some support, we are going for the logical partitioning for two. At that point, when you are calculating processing power and memory, IBM offers more choices, whereas it's actually very difficult for Oracle.
The solution could improve by giving a clear roadmap about the future. I'm not seeing a lot of improvements on the OS side of the software. They need to work more on the operating system.