Why use Oracle?

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:20 pm 0

I get the impression a large part of Oracle's dominance comes down to the software which runs on it - SAP and Peoplesoft in particular.

clovis · Post by **clovis** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:06 pm 0

Acronym wrote:I get the impression a large part of Oracle's dominance comes down to the software which runs on it - SAP and Peoplesoft in particular.

plus it runs on linux, unix, vms ,windows

that helps

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:07 pm 0

Thing is, I seem to remember SAP bought MySQL or gave them a load of
money last year. I got the impression that was maybe to make it a lot better
and give people the option of running on a much cheaper backend.

I also read last year or the year before that Oracle were focussing on linux,
partly a typical Larry snubs Bill thing.

clovis · Post by **clovis** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:55 pm 0

If you want to use Oracle you can now opt for the express edition, it's free.

xe

You can develop on it (as you would expect) but also deploy on it.

Of course there is a catch, it's single processor limit and max of 4gb user data.

Worth trying out though, it's still the beta at present but production version soon.