[Novalug] NOVALUG meets Saturday: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

[Kevin Dwyer]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:50:34AM -0400, gregory pryzby wrote:
> 
> I think it is a good idea, XE, because it gets Oracle into the hands
> of people using other free $RDBMS and allows them to see how it works.
> For the home user or someone building a web app for small or personal
> use, it would be fine. And if I am an Oracle DBA by day, don't need to
> learn something new. 

I think they really saw an opportunity to get their database distributed
as a package with software that needs a small database.  They had little
chance of making money off those people anyway and it gets their foot in
the door for the cost of some license reconfiguration.

-kpd