Thread: Free Oracle?

Free Oracle?

From
Joshua Kramer
Date:
In case everyone hasn't seen it yet, Oracle is now offering a free "Oracle 10i
Lite" version.  You can use it for development use or deploy for production
with the following limitations:

1. Data size limit is 4G (this includes Oracle System data)
2. Only 1 instance of server per hardware server
3. Only runs on 1 processor
4. Only uses up to 1G Ram.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5920796.html

Comments?

--Josh


Re: Free Oracle?

From
"Gevik babakhani"
Date:
Nice stunt from Orcale, It is free until you would need a bigger system,
then che..ching...  :)

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>
> In case everyone hasn't seen it yet, Oracle is now offering a free "Oracle
> 10i
> Lite" version.  You can use it for development use or deploy for
> production
> with the following limitations:
>
> 1. Data size limit is 4G (this includes Oracle System data)
> 2. Only 1 instance of server per hardware server
> 3. Only runs on 1 processor
> 4. Only uses up to 1G Ram.
>
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5920796.html
>
> Comments?
>
> --Josh
>
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Re: Free Oracle?

From
Bogomil Shopov
Date:
Joshua Kramer wrote:

In case everyone hasn't seen it yet, Oracle is now offering a free "Oracle 10i Lite" version.  You can use it for development use or deploy for production with the following limitations:

1. Data size limit is 4G (this includes Oracle System data)
2. Only 1 instance of server per hardware server
3. Only runs on 1 processor
4. Only uses up to 1G Ram.

This version is useless. If I choose system I need more that
- Only 1 instance of server per hardware server
- Data size limit is 4G (this includes Oracle System data)

Bogomil
http://openideascompany.com/bogomil

Regards
Bogo

Re: Free Oracle?

From
Bogomil Shopov
Date:
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Joshua Kramer wrote:

>
> In case everyone hasn't seen it yet, Oracle is now offering a free
"Oracle 10i Lite" version. You can use it for development use or deploy
for production with the following limitations:
>
> 1. Data size limit is 4G (this includes Oracle System data)
> 2. Only 1 instance of server per hardware server
> 3. Only runs on 1 processor
> 4. Only uses up to 1G Ram.

Ooo I forgot it is not openSource either

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Re: Free Oracle?

From
"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
>>In case everyone hasn't seen it yet, Oracle is now offering a free "Oracle
>>10i
>>Lite" version.  You can use it for development use or deploy for
>>production
>>with the following limitations:
>>
>>1. Data size limit is 4G (this includes Oracle System data)
>>2. Only 1 instance of server per hardware server
>>3. Only runs on 1 processor
>>4. Only uses up to 1G Ram.
>>
>>
>>

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAHAA!

That is my comment.

Only 1 processor? Only one gig of Ram? My workstation will have more
than that by the end of the month.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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>>
>>Comments?
>>
>>--Josh
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Re: Free Oracle?

From
David Fetter
Date:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:48:45AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >>In case everyone hasn't seen it yet, Oracle is now offering a free "Oracle
> >>10i
> >>Lite" version.  You can use it for development use or deploy for
> >>production
> >>with the following limitations:
> >>
> >>1. Data size limit is 4G (this includes Oracle System data)
> >>2. Only 1 instance of server per hardware server
> >>3. Only runs on 1 processor
> >>4. Only uses up to 1G Ram.
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
> HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAHAA!
>
> That is my comment.
>
> Only 1 processor? Only one gig of Ram? My workstation will have more
> than that by the end of the month.

And by next year, common *laptops* will have more than that, too.

Cheers,
D
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