Oracle To Offer A Free Database

31 octobre 2005

«By introducing a free entry-level product, Oracle intends to get more developers and students familiar with its namesake database, Mendelsohn said. Those customers, Oracle hopes, will eventually upgrade to a higher-end version.»

[Via ZDNet News]

I wonder what this means for IBM’s DB2 Express. Or should we consider we already have an offering by having donated Cloudscape to the Apache foundation, which is now renamed Apache Derby?

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