Re: Express Edition for Production
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:08:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Hans,� are you talking Enkitek or Enkitec?� For Enkitec, XE will never cut it... In fact, I think the bosses may just skip SE, too- What do you think we got the BDA for? :D http://mobile.oaktable.net/content/oracle-big-data-appliance-delivery-day
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From: Hans Forbrich <fuzzy.graybeard_at_gmail.com> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Express Edition for Production
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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