Oracle 10g Express Edition

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http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html

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Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an
entry-level, small-footprint (150MB) database based on the Oracle
Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and
distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer. Oracle Database
XE is a great starter database for:

Developers working on PHP, Java, .NET, and Open Source applications
DBAs who need a free, starter database for training and deployment
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors who want a
starter database to distribute free of charge
Educational institutions and students who need a free database for
their curriculum
With Oracle Database XE, currently available as a Beta release for
Windows and Linux, you can now develop and deploy applications with a
powerful, proven, industry-leading infrastructure, and then upgrade
when necessary without costly and complex migrations. A production
release is scheduled for early 2006.
Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size host machine with any
number of CPUs, but this free version of the world's leading database
will store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one
CPU on the host machine.
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[Richard Kistler]

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html

<SNIP>
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an
entry-level, small-footprint (150MB) database based on the Oracle
Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to develop, deploy, and
distribute; fast to download; and simple to administer. Oracle Database
XE is a great starter database for:

Developers working on PHP, Java, .NET, and Open Source applications
DBAs who need a free, starter database for training and deployment
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors who want a
starter database to distribute free of charge
Educational institutions and students who need a free database for
their curriculum
With Oracle Database XE, currently available as a Beta release for
Windows and Linux, you can now develop and deploy applications with a
powerful, proven, industry-leading infrastructure, and then upgrade
when necessary without costly and complex migrations. A production
release is scheduled for early 2006.
Oracle Database XE can be installed on any size host machine with any
number of CPUs, but this free version of the world's leading database
will store up to 4GB of user data, use up to 1GB of memory, and use one
CPU on the host machine.
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Seriously half baked release. Could not accept OTN license in Internet
Explorer(even with security turned way down). Got an "This way to the
egress" page in Firefox. I guess I will wait for another beta release of
their website for their beta product. Seems like a simple thing to write a
usable webpage.

Dick Kistler

 

[KHaled]

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Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is
an entry-level, small-footprint (150MB) database based on
the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that's free to
develop, deploy, and distribute; fast to download; and
simple to administer. Oracle Database XE is a great starter
database for:

Unless you are REALLY fond of the big O then I'd suggest that
one looks at a pre-packaged Apache/MySQL/PHP for whichever
platform you need. ( I don't think that would come close to a
150Meg..)

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KHaled

e-mail: khaledihREMOVEUPPERCASELETTERS at gmail dot com
(correcting antispam crap..)
please start your subject line with the string "==NG=="

 

[Richard Kistler]

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Unless you are REALLY fond of the big O then I'd suggest that
one looks at a pre-packaged Apache/MySQL/PHP for whichever
platform you need. ( I don't think that would come close to a
150Meg..)

Right!

Easy PHP: http://www.easyphp.org/ for a quick, easy, small download.


XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html for the whole ball of
wax(perl, python, tomcat, cocoon, ftp server, mail server, etc.)

I'm not particularly recommending these two, since there are probably 50 or
60 of these packaged Apache-MySQL-PHP environments.

Oh yeah, about any Linux distribution has all of this stuff in it and more.

Dick Kistler

 

[Renan]

KHaled escreveu:

Unless you are REALLY fond of the big O then I'd suggest that
one looks at a pre-packaged Apache/MySQL/PHP for whichever
platform you need. ( I don't think that would come close to a
150Meg..)

I am thiking about using this version of Oracle for some applications;
at work I have a database with ~3000 records which is screaming to be
migrated from (yuck) MS Access to something better.

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[*ProteanThread*]

Oracle Express may or may not suit your needs, OpenSQL or MySQL may be
better. But for simplicity's sake, use Oracle Express.

 

[KHaled]

I am thiking about using this version of Oracle for some
applications; at work I have a database with ~3000 records
which is screaming to be migrated from (yuck) MS Access to
something better.

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Ok, not to be too political, but O is not giving away their
software for free for no reason. I think it is a trap of
sorts to get people who may think of other options. I for
one would not want to bind myself with a product that aims at
hooking me into a vendors product line.

AMP on the other hand is Open Source & FREE. As to the size
of your data, I don't think that it would cause much problems
with a MySQL db. Depends on h/w.

Final question.. is it not the case that Brazil is striving
to go open source as much as possible ??

--
KHaled

e-mail: khaledihREMOVEUPPERCASELETTERS at gmail dot com
(correcting antispam crap..)
please start your subject line with the string "==NG=="

 

[Renan]

KHaled escreveu:

Ok, not to be too political, but O is not giving away their
software for free for no reason. I think it is a trap of
sorts to get people who may think of other options. I for
one would not want to bind myself with a product that aims at
hooking me into a vendors product line.

It is aimed at small users.

AMP on the other hand is Open Source & FREE. As to the size
of your data, I don't think that it would cause much problems
with a MySQL db. Depends on h/w.

Final question.. is it not the case that Brazil is striving
to go open source as much as possible ??

It is. I will evaluate Oracle, MySQL and other products, to see which
one fits.

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