The day Postgres or MySQL comes with APEX and Locator (Spatial subset) is the day I'll promote it/them to my #1 choice of free RDBMS. ;-) Until then, XE includes both, and that's impressive in itself. Libraries, VSE book keeping, home records ... and supported by DBVisit /Hans On 16/03/2013 10:00 PM, Tim Gorman wrote: > Look at the features that are excluded > <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17781_01/license.112/e18068/toc.htm#BABJIJCJ>, > and the list of included features > <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17781_01/license.112/e18068/toc.htm#BABIHJDH> has > more "no"s than "yes"s. > PostgreSQL is a more sensible no-cost choice for production usage. No > restrictions at all and lots of damn fine high-availability features. > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l