G2 Vendor Directory

HPE OpenVMS vs. Oracle Linux

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricHPE OpenVMS

by HP Development Company

Oracle Linux

by Oracle

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count19347
Ease of use8.48.7
Ease of setup9.38.7
Quality of support8.88.5
Meets requirements8.79.0
NPS55.55555660.060976
Small Business31.6%21.0%
Mid-Market42.1%31.1%
Enterprise26.3%47.9%
Total page views146737
Total LLM citations461,233

HPE OpenVMS

HPE OpenVMS is a robust, multi-user, and multiprocessing operating system designed to deliver exceptional reliability, availability, scalability, and security. Originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for VAX systems, OpenVMS has evolved to support Alpha, Itanium, and x86-64 architectures. It is engineered to handle time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing, and real-time applications, making it suitable for mission-critical environments.

Pros

  • Cloud Computing
  • Storage Management
  • Speed/Performance

Oracle Linux

A highly performant and secure operating environment, Oracle Linux delivers virtualization, management, automation, and cloud native computing tools, along with the operating system, in a single, easy-to-manage support offering. Oracle Linux provides a 100% application binary compatible alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux and is supported across both hybrid and multicloud environments.

Pros

  • Stability
  • RHEL Compatibility
  • Regular Updates
  • Reliability
  • Compatibility
  • Security/Safety