Users say Oracle's rollout plan shows the company doesn't really have an interest in driving adoption of the free database It may be “a year or two” before Oracle releases a no-cost Express Edition ...

Oracle 11g XE (Express Edition), the free-of-charge version of Oracle’s flagship database, is now in beta. XE provides an “entry-level, small-footprint RDBMS” based on 11g Release 2 code, said Oracle ...

It may be “a year or two” before Oracle releases a no-cost Express Edition (XE) of its 11g database, according to Andrew Mendelsohn, the company’s senior vice president of database server technologies ...

The company on Friday posted a "freebie" version of its 10g product to the Oracle Technical Network (OTN). Oracle Database 10g Express Edition, or XE, targets hobbyists, new database developers and ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Oracle today announced Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), a free, starter edition of the world's leading database software. A beta version of ...

Four major open source database projects have scoffed at Oracle’s attempt this week to tackle the threat of open source software. On Tuesday, Oracle released a beta version of Oracle 10g Express ...