30 April 2006
Free Oracle database
Everybody likes something for free, especially if it is a good product from a big, proven company. Oracle Express Edition is a free database that companies can seriously consider for small-scale databases. The Express Edition has some limits: the server must have only 1 CPU server, up to 1Gb of memory, maximum database size of 4Gb, and only one instance per server.I see this as Oracle's attempt to compete with some of the open-source databases like PostgreSQL and MySQL, therefore availability only for 32-bit Linux and Windows.
Overall, a good move from Oracle!
