Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Nov 1 11:38:35 CST 2005
Hi Gustav: Just received this comments from an OpenSource product research insider and I quote: <quote> Yes and no... they just recently acquired the company behind Innodb, which is an opensource project developed as a key component to MySQL. Oracle has been in talks with MySQL, but it's a bit hush. Oracle is publicly making a lot of promises about this and that, so not to p*** off the open source community (we remember what happened with SCO, right?), I think a lot of people are worried that Oracle has the potential for hostility against the MySQL world, as they have _no_ history of open source contributions, whereas the OS community trusts IBM for example... but on the other hand, they might give some technology to MySQL as a trade to get a better rep, like IBM We shall see. I don't have much hope for oracle, because, unless they are completely stupid, opensource is creeping into their territory and they need to change their business plan if they want to stay relevant. ...and, as far as I am aware, just like Microsoft, they haven't. </quote> All these comments are not my opinion but I thought they would be relevant. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 6:04 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Oracle 10g Express Edition Hi all This is the official message published today: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html /gustav >>> Gustav at cactus.dk 31-10-2005 16:00 >>> Hi all This should be announced to be free to use for students, developers, and small companies, as well as to distribute by ISVs with apps from these. It's a normal 10g for 32/64 bit Linux/Windows limited to one processor, 1 GB ram, and 4 GB database size. It is still in beta though ... whatever that is as 10g has been around for some time. It's a 157 MB download. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com