Re: Developer's license available for Oracle?

Victor Glass wrote:

> James Lavery wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >We've got a product which currently uses Access to store data, but
> >need to scale up to storing in Oracle, for a particular customer. (I
> >don't currently know what version of Oracle the customer is running)
> >
> >We don't have an Oracle installation at the moment, and I'm trying to
> >find out whether there's a 'developer' license available for Oracle
> >which we can buy, at a lesser cost to the normal license, for testing
> >purposes. Being a small software house, I'm a bit put off by the
> >£10,000 price tag for the standard edition!
> >
> >What's the story? I've looked on the Oracle website, but can't find
> >anything there...
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >James
> >
> Oracle offers a full featured demo version of Oracle9i Release 1 (9.0.1)
> CD Pack for Linux Intel. The price is 49 USD and it is a time limited
> license, 30 days. I preserve it can be re-installed after the 30 days is
> up for another 30 days.
>
> I've purchased this and I am in the process of installing it. My setup
> is a Dell Dimension XPS T500 with 512 MB ram and 90 GB hard disk. The
> Oracle software alone takes up 3GB, and they recommend at least 512 MB
> of ram. The OS I'm using is Red Hat 7.1, which basically costs almost
> nothing.
>
> On the back of the CD Pack they've printed: Worldwide inquiries: Phone
> +1 650 506 7000.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Vic

Actually I think the price is $39.95 USD. But what concerns me more is that it sounds like James thinks that Access is a database, Oracle is a database. We'll just replace one with the other. Nothing could be a straighter road to disaster.

I strongly advise you James and his team to either hire someone that really knows Oracle (and I don't just mean someone with Oracle on their resume) to help you understand the differences: They are very significant.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed May 01 2002 - 10:31:18 CDT