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Any knee-jerk reactions to Oracle’s
FREE 10g XE ? Will this Oracle entry DB have any effect on MapInfo use? Is
this an easy, too hard, or who cares type of solution? FYI >>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/02/28/75938_HNoraclexelate_1.html?source=NLC-TB2006-02-28 “Oracle made its low-end, free-of-charge Oracle
Database 10g Express Edition database, also known as XE, generally available
Tuesday. When the company initially released the beta version of the software
in October of last year, Oracle expected to debut the first full release of XE
by year-end. “XE is built on the same code as the company's enterprise-level
Oracle Database 10g Release 2. Oracle expects that users who adopt the free
edition of XE will later want to upgrade to paid versions of the 10g database.
The vendor is also hoping that the XE database will appeal to both developers
and the academic community. “There's a plethora of low-end free databases in
today's market, with Oracle's XE and Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Express
being joined last month by DB2 Universal Database Express-C. All three vendors
are also facing challenges from the open-source community led by database
company MySQL. “The XE database can be downloaded from Oracle
Technology Network at http://www.oracle.com/technology/xe.
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