As a result of growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, Oracle is expected to announce on Tuesday the beta release of Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), which for the first time being an Oracle database system that is made freely available.
It is targeted at students, small organizations and software vendors that could embed the Oracle database with an application.
It comes with the features you would expect from the paid version, except it places some storage and processing limitations. The Oracle Database XE can only run on servers with single processor, 4GB of disk memory and 1GB of RAM.
Via Techdigger, source: CNet.
The Oracle Database XE can only run on servers with single processor…
No. XE runs on multi-processor machines also but it will only use 1 processor regardless.
Hi, thanks for pointing out.