Re: Oracle personal edition?

From: Howard J. Rogers <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 21:17:24 +1000
Message-ID: <9ZRr9.56142$g9.160895@newsfeeds.bigpond.com>

"Kenneth C Stahl" <ktsahl_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3DAF55F4.B0C038E4_at_yahoo.com...
> Alan Mills wrote:
> >
> > Excactly! I'd never bother installing anything other than enterprise
> > edition. Even at home. If I was to install some other edition I know
that
> > sooner or later I'd want to get my hands on at least one of the missing
> > features!
> >
> > Just not worth the risk of needing to upgrade later, IMO
>
> Does this mean that you make it a common practice to illegally pirate
> commercial software. The cheapest price I have ever seen for the
Enterprise
> Edition is $800 for a single named user and the prices go up from there.
Or do
> you simply not care that you are not paying for an Enterprise license on
your
> home system? I wonder if Oracle would be interested in this type of
piracy?

You are a looney, pure and simple.

The Enterprise Edition is available for free download, without restriction, provided you never put it to commercial use.

Now go away and lecture to someone else.

And learn to read the licence terms before you preach.

HJR Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 06:17:24 CDT