Re: Installation of Oracle 9i personal editions for windows xp

On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:14:20 -0800, novice wrote:

> While I was downloading , I wondered why oracle would offer free
> software to download?

Oracle offers the first release of each version to the commiunity with no time bombs, reduced functionality or crippled features.

Their objective, just like Microsoft's with any Developer's Release, is to get developers interested and familiar with the new features. (Lot's of us do the Pavlovian Puppy Drool over new releases.)

The license to which the developer (you) agrees is simple ...  

  On your honour, you promise to do your best, to try it out and to NOT   put it into production without getting a production license.

It's not naiive - there are regular releases of patches that you can not access without a production license and paid support.

Sure lots of people put the unpatched stuff into production. Then they come here for help when it breaks and find out that we can not provide the patches either, without risking losing our access to the patch base.

Are there specific things you want from the database? You might want to review the features and see whether the absolutely free (to put into production) versions of Oracle, such as the Oracle Database 10g Express Edition or the Oracle Sleepycat BerkleyDB, will do the trick.

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Hans Forbrich                           
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