Oracle makes available the Oracle 10g XE for free

Oracle makes available the Oracle 10g XE for free

Software market giants Oracle have finally released the free variant of their database suite, Oracle 10g XE. It is available for free from the company’s website and is around 150 megabyte in download size.

The company has claimed that this application is compatible with bigger-iron Oracle databases but comes with hardware and memory constraints. Oracle has limited the capability of this variant to run only on one-processor machines. It can also only handle up to 4 gigabytes of user data and up to 1 gigabyte of memory.

Oracle is targeting this product at the budding developers aiming to make it big in the world of database management someday. The free version would help them get a taste of running one of the most popular database products on their home computers.

Mark Townsend, senior director of database product management at Oracle said in a statement on this product offering: “There are four clear development communities. For those who use the Java stack, we provide all the JDBC drivers so you can write stored procedures in Java. For the .Net stack, there is a Visual Studio add-on so you can write in CLR [Microsoft's Common Language Runtime]. There are optimized PHP drivers and also a built-in application Express development environment.”

He further added: “This is a new area for Oracle. People associate us with high-end, data warehouse and mission-critical [jobs]. This is basically an opportunity for people to start out early and right-footed [with Oracle technology].”

Download: Oracle 10g XE

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