Subj : Re: Free Oracle (was: Resume questions, how convey? (was: How much...)) To : comp.programming,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.lisp From : Joan Date : Thu Sep 08 2005 04:36 pm "Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t" wrote in message news:REM-2005sep03-004@Yahoo.Com... >> 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. Yes it is free for developers, I downloaded it for windows xp and it works fine. My guess is that projects that use oracle are not simple things that get developed in a few days and that if the developer needs to buy a copy of Oracle at a high price to build a prototype, they might just as well use another db instead. > > 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. .