Re: 10g personal edition licensing question

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

cumin wrote:
> I would like to obtain an Oracle license that would allow me to
> analyze and interpret and query about 10-20 GB of data. The production
> people upload delimited data to the public, which I download and
> insert using sqlldr.
>
> I am not developing an application. No other user needs access to my
> database. I provide a support role to the actual production team. I
> had been using the free download of the Enterprise Edition until I re-
> read the license and saw that using the database to analyze and
> interpret the data was expressly forbidden.
>
> Trying to talk to Oracle about this has been frustrating. In addition,
> all the license agreements posted by them appear identical,
> prohibiting the use of the DB for analyzing and interpreting data.
>
> Can anybody point me in a direction that will allow my employer to
> purchase a single user, license that will allow me to look at data?
>
> Thank you.
>

How about XE?
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/index.html It's "FREE Product" - well, some restrictions apply, see: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html

• -- Regards, Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32)

iD8DBQFGUen5Lw8L4IAs830RArJ0AJ4zB4u9FOZShUStmM7lY43xt12FbACggU4m z5pafg9eioWNgYNeSFneHkk=
=WFp3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Received on Mon May 21 2007 - 13:50:34 CDT