Re: Oracle's New "Express Edition"

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:11:44 +0100, Cris Carampa wrote:

> HansF wrote:
>

>> Leads to an interesting question ... when this gets released, what is it
>> really:
>> 	 1.0 
>> 	 10.2 
>> 	 1.0 of 10.2

Bringing this back from humour, are we ...

I think I can answer some of these questions, even though I'm not an Oracle representative.

XE is a special package of SE1. I suspect it will stay aligned with it's parent commercial release.

Oracle has indicated it will not provide traditional patches. Instead, it will be pre-patched inside Oracle and that patched version will be released on OTN as a complete download. I suspect choosing the upgrade method is part of the reason why this is still beta.

And yes, it will be on certified releases, although the Linux-ites are already deploying on every combination, even when the combination is not viable. (RH8, for example, being upsupported not longer gets the right glibc - yet someone really wants to load XE on that. <sigh>)

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