Oracle Database Express Edition is free for deployment as well. But there is no support (you'd have to go to the Oracle Forums and ask around).
Also it is limited to 1 core, 1GB of RAM, and 4GB of data. IBM DB2 Express-C is a much less crippled offering, up to 2 CPUs, unlimited data space. However both Oracle and DB2 are large and daunting offerings, and going with DB2 just because "I can get enterprise database for free beer" is a bad justification. Not to mention the DB2 community is smaller than the Oracle community, so less help is forthcoming unless you're a DB2 expert already. You should use the technology that meets your needs and budget. Deriding people who use open source as poor losers is un-productive. Defending open-source as the end-all and portraying closed-source users as ignorant folks with lots of money is wrong as well. I'm sure everyone here would gladly ditch MySQL for Oracle for their usual deployments, if money was not an issue. I'd gladly ditch my Mazda for a Benz if money was not an issue. There is a very definite technical advantage to Oracle, and anyone who says otherwise is mistaken. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Kelsey Hartigan Go <[email protected]> wrote: > 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) -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
