Oracle database XE

Wednesday 2 November 2005 — This is nearly 19 years old. Be careful.

Oracle is jumping on the free database bandwagon: Oracle Database XE is a free (as in beer) Oracle database. This parallels Microsoft’s SQL Server Express and of course all of the open source databases. The press release indicates that XE will be limited in both RAM (1 Gb) and storage (4 Gb). Microsoft’s earlier free database, Desktop Edition, was unfortunately also limited in how many concurrent activities it would support, and made it just a toy.

Keep in mind, XE is still Oracle 10g under the hood, so it’s going to have a big footprint, the download is 150Mb! Harry Fuecks has some details on building a PHP site on top of it.

Comments

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andrew 10:27 AM on 2 Nov 2005
MS' next freebie will be based on SQL 2005 and will have no restrictions. That's what I hear, at least.
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remco 5:02 AM on 3 Nov 2005
Seems to me, the big guys may be trying to do the same linux did for unix: if the developer is free to experiment with the product, the product will be sold more often. Because, if the developer can only use another product at home, it'll be most likely he'll try to use it at work as well.

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