There is a free version of Oracle for development...but severely
restricted...similar to microsoft sqlexpress.and Db2express (but db2 and
sqlexpress you can use for production, oracle, you can't)


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Winelfred G. Pasamba <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there are possible market state where Oracle will zero the
> license-to-use price and only charge for support?
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Orlando Andico <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Sun actually positions MySQL as an Oracle replacement in some cases,
> > and you ought to check out their support contract pricing.. the
> > comparison is more relevant than you guys think.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, joebert jacaba <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think its unfair to compare Oracle 10 or 11g to Postgres. There are
> >>> a lot of verticals that Oracle cover that Postgres probably doesn't
> >>> because of market demand. A more appropriate comparison would probably
> >>> be OracleXE to PostgreSQL.
> >>>
> >>
> >> And is it fair to compare it to MySQL?
> >
> >
> >
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