Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com wrote:
Meanwhile, if this is linux.oracle.com, shouldn't Oracle database be included in the 'free version'?
No, as IBM doesn´t make DB2 GPL either. It´s the big bucks from the fortune 500 proprietary products which pays -in part- for all the FOSS goodness like OpenJDK, Netbeans, Virtualbox, Glassfish, MySQL, Btrfs, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB...
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Um, there *is* a free version of Oracle. There are coded-in limits to size - I know, because in '09, I was fighting to install and configure spacewalk (*bleah!*), which *required* Oracle at the time, and the free version of Oracle would only allow a max mem of 1G, and just to make spacewalk work, I had to up the default to something like 997M.
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