On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:33 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Um, there *is* a free version of Oracle. I thought you meant "free as in freedom" and not "free as in free beer". Yes, probably there is a free - limited - restricted -tryout - development etc version fo Oracle database has IBM as provided of DB2 as well... http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/ FC