Re: Oracle goes Free
- From: "Brett Watters" <blwatters@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:12:50 -0700
Folks,
I have 3 words: W.O.W!!!!
Hardly, that exciting.
First, MS SQL has had a developer edition for a long time.
Second, you could join the Oracle partners program (free) and get access to
licenses for developing with Oracle since what 7.x? Fill out a form.
Third, it really only affects developers. Easy to install isn't really too
much of a benefit.
a) Any software company not actually installing the real version on a
separate server and testing against that is nuts. i.e. it doesn't save you
from having to install manage and deal with the real version. We have
personal MS SQL. Sure. However, that doesn't stop us from also having the
real version on an actual server so we can honestly test and develop
against.
b) You need to support the real version anyway. That will be the only
version which the client/deployment will support. You need to be able to
install, backup, trouble-shoot, document, etc. issues in the copy which
clients will be using. You might as well work with the copy that clients
will using.
c) No client is going to accept an installation of this. Try asking an IT
department to install 'Personal Oracle' on a desktop and you'll be laughed
out of the room. Issues of support, maintanence, security, backup, data
security, reliablity, etc. are typically non-starters for real companies. It
might be easier for you to install and maintain a personal DB, but for the
IT department it is easier to maintain a half-dozen Oracle servers next door
than hundreds of 'personal' databases across the organization. Any client
using Oracle has the real thing, on real servers. Actual applications
running on local SQL machines won't fly and 160MB downloads and
installations will not be accepted for training, demos, evaluations, etc.
d) It isn't great from demos or real world development use. Put personal MS
SQL or Oracle on a notebook and all you have demonstrated is that your app
runs slowly. Try using it to trouble shoot a problem with a large client
database, develop an import, run large reports against, an internet
application, etc. and the poor workstation is going to be in serious
trouble. These DBs were honestly designed to be run client-server. Put
Oracle or MS SQL on even a cheap 1GHz box and it will run rings around even
a 3GHz workstation trying to run Delphi, IIS, and the DB all at once.
.
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