Comments on: Oracle releases a free database

By: Davis

Davis — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:40:26 +0000

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By: Bob H.

Bob H. — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:06:33 +0000

The good thing about it is, now people can actually use a smaller version to develop on and then easily move that over to a production instance. I don’t think it will replace a MySQL or Pg but wierder things have happen in this industry!

By: Damjan

Damjan — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:24:15 +0000

The problem for oracle is its client libraries, they are very peculiar to install..

By: anon

anon — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:13:01 +0000

Ah, yes, the JVM. I do remember that. For some reason I thought you were talking about Java code.

Thanks!

By: tazzzzz

tazzzzz — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:59:47 +0000

You can redistribute Java applications, you just can’t redistribute the JVM. That’s why Linux distributions don’t include Java and have to come up with workarounds to make it play well with their package systems.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:45:00 +0000

“Contrast this with Java, which is free but annoys everyone to no end because you can’t distribute it.”

I’m curious – what can’t you distribute? I’ve never encountered a problem distributing a Java app. Or maybe I’ve been doing it illegally all along