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 ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 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 ...

In a bid to expand the customer base for its database software, Sybase released on Tuesday a free, limited version of its software for deployment on Linux systems. In a bid to expand the customer base ...

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 ...

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 ...