wes_williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ("Wes Williams") writes:
> Perhaps I'm the only one to actually have read the article?
>
> Oracle 10g Express Edition HAS been available for free for development
> purposes with the previously posted and reviewed limited licenses for quite
> some time now.
>
> The news the zdnet.com article is reporting suggests Oracle WILL, by
> years end, make the same software available for free - even in
> production and commercial use. The Oracle 10g Express Edition is
> still limited software by means of hardware resources available to
> the database and a 4Gb [user] data file limit.
And I daresay that this _can_ be an attractive thing to businesses,
supposing they offer a "production release," gratis.
There are plenty of "departmental applications" out there that involve
limited amounts of data which can fit into the 4GB restriction.
If Oracle provides a way to make it easy and cheap to deploy those, it
can drive a fair bit of future Oracle business.
The fact that it appears "a joke" to people wanting to deploy big
databases doesn't prevent it from taking a painful bite out of, oh,
say, certain vendors that forgot to own their own transactional
storage engine...
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