Re: history question: when did Oracle start offering downloadable binaries?
From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 17:26:19 +0000
Message-ID: <CABe10sYTVhuzXSdBmRbpyUfiFbah=t6npmYQaKYTAybi=Yoj4A_at_mail.gmail.com>
The software has been available via otn since at least 8i. I *think* 8.1.0.5 was the first I was aware of. (the wayback machine has a snapshot from January 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20001109153100/http://otn.oracle.com/software/index.htm ) . I'm pretty sure you had to pay a nominal fee to download though.
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 17:26:19 +0000
Message-ID: <CABe10sYTVhuzXSdBmRbpyUfiFbah=t6npmYQaKYTAybi=Yoj4A_at_mail.gmail.com>
The software has been available via otn since at least 8i. I *think* 8.1.0.5 was the first I was aware of. (the wayback machine has a snapshot from January 2000
https://web.archive.org/web/20001109153100/http://otn.oracle.com/software/index.htm ) . I'm pretty sure you had to pay a nominal fee to download though.
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:13 PM, kyle Hailey <kylelf_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone know when Oracle started offering a web download for the Oracle
> binaries so that people could test Oracle out first before buying?
>
> bonus question: anyone know when VMware offered a download option ?
>
> - Kyle Hailey
> http://datavirtualizer.com
>
>
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed Jan 07 2015 - 18:26:19 CET