Re: Oracle 10g - price and expiration?

On 22 Aug 2006 14:15:54 -0700, joe1977_at_tlen.pl wrote:

>Hi. I have simple question. I have been buliding and testing my PHP 5 /
>Oracle 10g application for couple months, and it is read now. I would
>like to public it (through PHP) on line. What kind of costs and
>licences (server will be two processors) do I need to obtain? It is
>just a school project.

 Oracle XE (Express Edition) is free. It'll use one of the two processors.

 Next up is Standard Edition One, which will do two processors, and then prices go up (pretty steeply) from there.

 http://www.oracle.com/database/product_editions.html

>Another question - if my Oracle is running like
>now without any licence is it somehow limited with speed/db
>capacity/etc and it will shut down within a time, or there are no
>limitation?

 There's no limitation built into the main versions of the database to enforce the license, except in Oracle XE which does have CPU and capacity limits (see the website for details).

 Oracle instead have an ample supply of lawyers!

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