Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases. Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), which will be generally available by the end of the year. It is targeted at students, small organisations and software vendors that could embed the Oracle database with an application. The new low-end edition is aimed squarely at free and open-source alternatives to Oracle’s namesake database
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