Re: What Server to take?

If you intend to use primarily for applications development under Developer, Oracle8 Personal Edition is enough. Oracle8 Enterprise Edition will fit high availability requirements. 8i includes several features of 8 plus java virtual machine, application server, corba and other features for internet.

Gottfried Pauler wrote:

> I am a student who wants to get to know the Oracle DBMS. Oracle offers
> trial-versions of all their products and so I will try for 30 days!
> But Oracle´s way describing their different products on their page is
> really bad! The only thing you can read out is that "each product is
> better than the others"!
> So my question is what is the difference between:
> Oracle8 and Oracle8i
> Lite Version, Personal Edition and Enterprise Edition
>
> .... or are there any other DB-servers / editions too?
>
> Thanks for any comment,
> Gottfried Pauler

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