Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:25:32AM +0000, Guido Barosio wrote:
> fyi
>
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2006/jw-0227-iw-opensource.html

"Each of the top three relational database vendors—IBM, Microsoft,
and Oracle—now offers a version of its flagship product for
download, free of charge."

Man, have the 1984 history re-writers been at it, or are people just
clueless? Oracle has allowed free downloads since at least 9i. And
what's more, those were uncrippled versions. You just couldn't use them
legally in production.
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