Lucian at lastdot.org wrote: > I'm no Oracle user/expert, but isn't Oracle DB 11g free (as in beer)? > So my take is he's not paying anything. > AFAIK, its only free for your initial development work. As soon as you deploy a production app, you have to get support, and as soon as you have a support contract, you can no longer run any free instances, except the lightweight 'express' version which is limited to very small databases with only a few connections and doesn't have any of the enterprise functions.