Oracle's free software foray scorned

Posted by tadelste on Nov 2, 2005 11:34 PM EDT
ZDNet UK; By Ingrid Marson 		Mail this story
Print this story

Four major open source database projects have scoffed at Oracle’s attempt this week to tackle the threat of open source software.

On Tuesday, Oracle released a beta version of Oracle 10g Express Edition, a low-end edition of its database. The Express Edition is the same as other databases in Oracle’s lineup, but can only run servers with one processor, 4GB of disk memory and 1GB of memory.

[Ed - Oracle has done this in the past to promote its products. tadelste]

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community, Oracle, Sun

« Return to the newswire homepage

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
How can the same story be misinterpreted so often? TxtEdMacs 3 1,360 Nov 3, 2005 5:47 PM

You cannot post until you login.