<tt><font size=2>> Lucian@lastdot.org wrote:<br>
>> I'm no Oracle user/expert, but isn't Oracle DB 11g free (as in
beer)?<br>
>> So my take is he's not paying anything.<br>
>> <br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>pierce@hogranch.com wrote:<br>
> AFAIK, its only free for your initial development work. As soon
as you <br>
> deploy a production app, you have to get support, and as soon as you
<br>
> have a support contract, you can no longer run any free instances,
<br>
> except the lightweight 'express' version which is limited to very
small <br>
> databases with only a few connections and doesn't have any of the
<br>
> enterprise functions.<br>
<br>
</font></tt><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Let me absolutely clear on this,
when I say 'production' I'm speaking about <b>my personal home network
only. </b>This network consists of a very few machines with very limited
access to the outside world. I use it for my education and experience only.
So production, to me, is a environment I don't want to update more than
once a year.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Gene Poole<br>
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