[OT] Re: Free Oracle database now on general release

[John Summerfied]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:04 -0500, taharka wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>Oracle has now made its low-end, free-of-charge Oracle Database 10g
>>Express Edition generally available to the public.
>>
>>Also known as the XE database, the beta version of the software was
>>originally launched as a beta product last October.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Not to seem rude or condescending, but how, exactly, does this relate to
> a GNU/Linux distribution which strictly advocates *against* such
> proprietary software? ;-)

I thought this forum is for discussion of matters of particular interest 
to users of Fedora Core, not for advocacy. Many users of Fedora Core use 
proprietary software such as drivers for ATI and nvidia graphics 
devices, and discussion of technical matters and availability of and 
stability of those is in order, so how's Oracle different? I'd be very 
intterested to see how Oracle's performance compares with that of, say, 
Postgresql. Oracle and DB2 seem to be the software of choice for those 
with very large databases, shy should we not discuss its use on Fedora Core?



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