On Sunday 30 of October 2005 20:17, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote: > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/index.html > > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5920796.html > > > > 'Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction > > to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source > > databases.' > > > > Your thoughts? > > It probably has little impact on us. It is useful perhaps for developer > servers at existing Oracle sites.
IMHO it is not against PostgreSQL/other OS DBs. It can be, but rather as a side effect. The main competitor is free Sybase ASE (also Express Edition :-)). http://www.sybase.com/linuxpromo Check the limitations. Sounds familiar? Sybase ASE XE is a MSSQL competitor for low buget projects, ASE is still very similar to Microsoft's SQL Server. Sybase also declares deep cooperation with Novell (SuSE distribution). I don't think Oracle does not bother with this. Regards, Mariusz Czułada ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
