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 ...

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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 ...

Available as a 150-Mbyte download via Oracle's Web site, 10g XE is compatible with the bigger-iron Oracle databases, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company has said. Like competitive offerings from ...