Re: ORACLE or SQL SERVER (MS) ?

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:<3f964b5e$0$250$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> "Hulse" <hulse_kevin_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:16926526.0310211828.1ac77033_at_posting.google.com...
> > Erland Sommarskog <sommar_at_algonet.se> wrote in message
> news:<Xns941C29886F12Yazorman_at_127.0.0.1>...
> > > Daniel Morgan (damorgan_at_x.washington.edu) writes:
> > > > Not sure if you can get SQL Server for free
> > >
> > > Not completely, but there is a 120-day evaluation version available.
> > > See item 6 on http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/topdownloads.asp.
> >
> > It is quite easy to get free copies of Oracle. They will be
> > unlicensed of course. However, you will be free to install
> > and run them. They are not cripple-ware. They are the full
> > installation packs. So you can use Oracle 9.2 EE for NT or
> > Linux without limitation (barring SBA audits).
>
> They are not unlicensed. You agree to a licence when you download them -
> basically non-commercial use so it fits the OP requirements for which is

For all practical purposes, what I said was correct. Anything but a highly trivial use of the software will be unauthorized.

> better to learn. Equally you cannot use them without restriction, the
> restrictions are however reasonable.

The restrictions are not built into the software. There are no ticking time bombs or crippled features. You could run Orbitz with the demoware available at Oracle's website.

Oracle's demoware is not crippleware.

>
> As far as learning MSSQL goes, I think that I would go with MSDE on the
> grounds that 120 days to learn a RDBMS is somewhat ambitious.
Received on Thu Oct 23 2003 - 23:20:33 CDT