I really don't understand why Oracle only sell this vesion in $10,000, but
no trial version for us, comparing its Oracle for NT, it is quite easy to
get and try it. I think we may let Oracle know there is a huge demanding for
this version.
Zhenming
J Costello wrote in message <7oqnfe$9rg$1_at_user2.teleport.com>...
>In article <bBrl3.772$X_6.204305_at_news1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com>,
>Yousuf Khan <ykhan_at_spam.home.com.spam> wrote:
>>James Collings <james_at_futuress.globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:7mvuua$k5t$1_at_gxsn.com...
>>> Does anybody know where I can source Oracle for Solaris 2.7, in the same
>>> style as the Educational "cheapware" Solaris x86 from Sun.
>>>
>>> Obviously I can spend the $x,xxx for the full release, however, the
>>schools
>>> budget won't stretch that far. Anything up to the $100 mark would be
>>cool.
>>> I have seen that Oracle do 30 day evaluation licenses, anybody got
>>> experience of this here in the UK? Or better still, anybody know if the
>>> license can be "waived" for Education reasons.
>>
>>Have you looked into MySQL? Not Oracle, but SQL nonetheless and the price
is
>>right (free).
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
>Last time I checked Oracle's Technet, Oracle had not released the software
>for Solaris on x86. Solaris on Sparc is available (my webmaster got a copy
>from Oracle's Internet conference), but was quite difficult to install.
>Since we didn't want to pay the licensing fees (this was at an educational
>institution), we went with mySQL.
>
>Cos
>costello_at_teleport.com
>
>
Received on Wed Aug 11 1999 - 21:48:12 CDT
