RE: history question: when did Oracle start offering downloadable binaries?

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 10:26 AM To: kyle Hailey
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: history question: when did Oracle start offering downloadable binaries?

The software has been available via otn since at least 8i. I *think* 8.1.0.5 was the first I was aware of. (the wayback machine has a snapshot from January 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20001109153100/http://otn.oracle.com/software/index.htm<https://web.archive.org/web/20001109153100/http:/otn.oracle.com/software/index.htm> ) . I'm pretty sure you had to pay a nominal fee to download though.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 5:13 PM, kyle Hailey <kylelf_at_gmail.com<mailto:kylelf_at_gmail.com>> wrote: Anyone know when Oracle started offering a web download for the Oracle binaries so that people could test Oracle out first before buying?

bonus question: anyone know when VMware offered a download option ?

• Kyle Hailey http://datavirtualizer.com

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Wed Jan 07 2015 - 18:34:26 CET