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Oracle threw the final version of its Oracle Database 10g XE (Express Edition) into the freebie RDBMS ring on Feb. 28.
Oracle announced the beta for Oracle Database XE in early November. It is designed to give lower-end application developers and students a leg up into Oracle technology.
The database is free to develop, deploy and distribute. Anybody can download it, develop with it, deploy it within limitations, and distribute, embed or share it with colleagues.
The limitations are that XE can run on multiprocessor boxes, but only on one processor in a multiprocessor server. Also, it can store up to 4GB of physical user data, while memory usage...
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