Subj : Re: Free Oracle To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Christopher Browne Date : Sun Sep 04 2005 06:13 pm >> From: Tim X for development (i.e. not to >> be sold) purposes, you can get a free copy of Oracle. The 10g >> version for Linux is quite nice. > > This is the first I've ever heard of such. All the information I got > previously was that Oracle is the high-end commercial RDBS that > hardly anybody can afford and so there's no way they'd give it away > for free. If I ever can get the modem on my laptop working again, I > might see about downloading the free Oracle. Thanks for the clue, > even though I can't make any use of it at present. > > Is there a free version that works on FreeBSD Unix? If the whole > things occupies less than ten megabytes, I could install it on my > personal shell account. The temporary Java installation you'd need to do in order to run the Oracle installer would consume _considerably_ more than 10MB. And no, running it on a personal shell account on FreeBSD won't be an option. The installer needs root access because it needs to set up multiple Unix user IDs. And no, there will never be any dimension in which Oracle would be less than 10MB in size. It would prefer to have a gigabyte of RAM, forget about disk. You likely can't run Oracle on hardware wimpy enough that people would throw the hardware away... -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc")) http://cbbrowne.com/info/ If we were meant to fly, we wouldn't keep losing our luggage. .