Oracle Corp. plans to release a free version of its database by the end of the year in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market. Oracle released a beta version of the product, ...

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 Oracle Database XE is available for ...

Oracle made its low-end, free-of-charge Oracle Database 10g Express Edition database, also known as XE, generally available Tuesday. When the company initially released the beta version of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The database heavyweight ships the Unix versions of its much-anticipated 10g database, matches Microsoft on pricing and cuts the cost of its clustering features. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

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 ...