Oracle announces a free (as in beer) database

1 Nov 2005

Obviously fed up with MySQL grabbing marketshare at the bottom, Oracle has just put out a cut-down version of its 10g database called 10g Express Edition.

It's sure to help Oracle regain some mindshare, particularly among students who know exactly how much Oracle DBAs get paid and who currently find it hard to get hands-on experience with 10g proper. It will, however, have little effect on the hosting market, since it's not free for that group of users. That means the LAMP stack will continue to dominate that arena until any further changes of heart hit Oracle.

Posted by Rob Buckley on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 8:48 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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