Re: Express Edition for Production
- From: Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:59:54 -0600
Indeed, XE was a response to IBM and Microsoft releasing their own
Express Editions for DB2 and SQL Server respectively, if you look at the
initial timing.
But I'm always curious - in the 'target market' for XE, how much data
does an organization really need to store. Think of a reasonably small
company, say the size of Enkitek ... how much financials information
will the generate per year? I mean, realistically, many companies have
accumulated 10 years or more of financials using QuickBooks in less than
200MB.
With Oracle Text indexing external information, XE can do a huge amount,
even for a small company's equivalent to Sharepoint. Just don't store
the powerpoints inside Oracle (which seems silly even in EE). And given
that heterogeneous gateway is included and free with every version and
edition, that means you CAN access the data in Postgres or anywhere
else. ;-)
All that said, while I do agree that XE is best in the learning and
prototype environment, I am saddened that so many professionals write it
off so quickly.
/Hans
On 17/03/2013 4:02 PM, Tim Gorman wrote:
On 17/03/2013 4:02 PM, Tim Gorman wrote:
> Single-channel RMAN is included as a concession that even casual
> development environments need backups, but that is the extent of
> production support. The XE license terms (i.e. 1 CPU core, 1 Gb RAM, 11
> Gb data) puts the final kibosh on any intent for production use; laptops
> don't even come that small any more.
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