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In article <F8SdnfhpePcmEeDeRVn_vA_at_giganews.com>, yBayM says...
> My friend has a small pharmacy and wants his system to run on Oracle
> database, currently he tested the Oracle 8i and works just right.
>
> He tried to ask for the license terms for the 8i version but resellers
> said that support has been stopped for this version so there's no
> license for 8i only for 9i and latter versions. How true it is?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
For a completely free of charge solution he could try Oracle 10g XE (it is beta at present though and am sure support will have to be paid for separately). Worth bearing in mind though for the production release.
-- jeremyReceived on Fri Nov 18 2005 - 07:45:31 CST