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Not true.
Sorry, while I'm hardly an Ellison fan, the fact is it takes considerable time, effort and capital to develope new products. The company producing those products should be able to make a profit. While Oracle is releasing a version aimed at the open source market it's a severely limited product requiring a high end pc to run it on. When compared to the similar offering from MySQL and Postgre in the same space Oracle will probably not gain a lot of market share as the people using open source software aren't going to be willing to pony up the software to run it.

As for saying that Oracle has been screwing us on the price of it's software sorry but it's their product. If you think it costs too much choose one of the lower cost alternatives of which there are many. That's called the market system.
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Sad...  happyharry_z | 10/29/05
Not true.  maldain | 10/31/05
Pointless  JP_999 ZDNet Moderator | 10/29/05
No Competition  schoinard | 10/31/05
Pointless  JP_999 ZDNet Moderator | 10/29/05
And crack dealers to give out first hit for free  Boot_Agnostic | 10/30/05
Oracle learned early  BrianGrimm | 10/31/05
ZDNET Knock it OFF  yyuko@... | 10/30/05
That's actually rather accurate..  d_jedi | 10/30/05
So other than testing...  lawryll@... | 10/31/05
Actually there is a good reason to go with this  maldain | 10/31/05
Worthless as Enterprise dev or test DB.  hulse_kevin | 10/31/05
you don't need to pay for license on Dev DB  roytmaned | 10/31/05
Depends  IT Scion | 10/31/05
Not entirely correct but close  voska | 10/31/05
You're right but  IT Scion | 10/31/05
Oracle's protecting it's market  krehbiel | 10/31/05
But what about when you grow...  greekfire | 11/01/05
(NT)LOL at all the people comparing Oracle to MySQL  toadlife | 10/31/05
Laugh at Larry then.  hulse_kevin | 10/31/05
A 4gb Disk??  xkmail | 10/31/05
with 4GB of disk memory  voska | 10/31/05
I think it means...  lawryll@... | 10/31/05
Sounds a lot like MSDE then  voska | 11/01/05
I think it means...  lawryll@... | 10/31/05
DB Size  greekfire | 11/01/05
A 4gb Disk??  xkmail | 10/31/05
Why would I decrease my profits to use Oracle???  AldoWatts | 10/31/05
What free  IT Scion | 10/31/05
Hmm...  greekfire | 11/01/05
Pure vendor FUD  AldoWatts | 11/18/05
Oracle's smart tactics  joemartn | 11/01/05

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