> 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. >> pierce at hogranch.com wrote: > 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. Let me absolutely clear on this, when I say 'production' I'm speaking about my personal home network only. 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. Thanks, Gene Poole -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090608/23616def/attachment-0005.html>