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On Jul 23, 6:19 am, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfi..._at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jul 22, 5:43 pm, "Ana C. Dent" <anaced..._at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > sachin..._at_gmail.com wrote in news:1185119330.674797.302820
> > @z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com:
>
> > > Hello all,
>
> > > I am a new student of Oracle DB. I want to know, if there are some
> > > running oracle servers which we can use for study puropse, to
> > > understand oracle and SQL queries?
>
> > > if this is possible, please let me know
>
> >http://otn.oracle.com
> > You can download & install on any system you desire.
>
> Not strictly true, the only db product that you can legally download
> for this purpose is in fact the XE product (with the single process/
> 4gb ram etc restriction). The rest are licensed only for prototype
> development - see my blog athttp://www.orawin.info/services/node/37
> and indeed the license.
>
> I personally think this is unfortunate, but there you go.
>
> Niall
That's a profoundly incorrect reading of the license, as I explain at http://www.dizwell.com/prod/node/897
The license prohibits commercial exploitation of the free software; it does not mandate its use only in the production of prototypes.
For home learning (self-study) purposes, nothing in the license prohibits the use of the Enterprise/Standard Edition downloads available from OTN. Received on Sun Jul 22 2007 - 18:49:42 CDT