最近的 oracle 产品消息:Oracle Database XE 推出正式版。正式版本在32-bit 的Linux 和Windows 上可用.
- Installs using native installers
- English (single byte character set) and International (Unicode) versions available with support for 10 major languages
- Supports up to 4GB of user data
- May be installed on a multiple CPU server, but only executes on one processor in any server
- May be installed on a server with any amount of memory, but will only use up to 1GB RAM of available memory
- Fully upgradeable to other oracle Database 10g editions
- Oracle Text for efficient text-based searches
这个免费版本可以直接平滑升级到Oracle 的其他版本，而且部署简单，能让开发人员迅速入手。不得不让人深深感到 oracle 为了争夺客户煞费苦心。
