Re: Oracle Licensing, guys i need your expert opinion on this.

HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote:

> Oracle XE has the following limits:
> - Limited to 4GB user data. (>4GB Generates an Oracle error.)
> - Limited to 1 CPU. (Only uses one CPU on SMP machines.)
> - Limited to 1 GB. (Still testing - think it's SGA+PGA)
 

> Oracle XE comes with a subset of SE[1] capability. Biggest limitation is
> 'no JVM' and therefore no Java Supplied procedures or APIs. Biggest
> benefits are: Oracle SQL, Oracle reliability and pre-initialized HTMLDB.

The OP said that his friend had a "small pharmacy". I can't see a small pharmacy needing anything like a 4GB database. Of course, some of the other features may be vital to the (presumably) pharmacy management app.

Paul...

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Oracle, 9.2.0.1.0 (Enterprise Ed.)
Interbase 6.0.1.0;

When asking database related questions, please give other posters 
some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL.
The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't work!").
Thanks.
 
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