Re: Oracle Personal Edition Sucks!

On 2006-04-24, HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:24:08 -0700, Dusan Bolek wrote:
>
>>
>> xg_at_oraclexg.com wrote:
>>> http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2004/08/28/23563.aspx
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Allright, so I installed Oracle personal edition on my desktop. Here are
>>> my peeves against oracle -
>>
>> My problem with Oracle PE is that it doesn't run on any decent operating
>> system. One would expect more from company that is giving cute little
>> penguins as christmas presents. :-(
>
> I concur.
>
> I've tried on several occasions to get Linux people to speak up on this.
> No one does. So Oracle doesn't realize that PE on Linux is an
> opportunity.
>
> Possibly because they think PE is 'less than SE', whereas PE is actually
> 'more than EE' in capability, just licensed for a max of one user.

        XE will never be used to power a realtime datawarehouse that can eat multiple 9980's for breakfast, a few E15K's for lunch and still be ready to devour something else for dinner.

        XE is infact rediculously crippled even for an educational tool.

        I can see why people with easy access to postgres or mysql would not pay much attention to it (XE).

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