Frank van Bortel schrieb:
> Maxim Demenko wrote:
>> frank.van.bortel@gmail.com schrieb:
>>> Just as free of charge as 7.3!!! that is: 7.3 is NOT free of charge!
>>>
>>> And XE actually is free of charge, provided you run it on a single
>>> processor machine, with less than 1GB memory for Oracle, and less than
>>> 4GB of database!
>>>
>> If i understood it correctly, you are not even restricted in the
>> hardware choice by Oracle XE - if you run it on 4CPU machine with 20Gb
>> memory ( i think there is no license violation ) , database will use
>> only one cpu and up to 1Gb memory, if you try to insert over 4Gb user
>> data - you run in the error message. And you will not be able to install
>> more than one XE instance per machine.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Maxim
> No sure about the # of procs, but I said 1GB memory *for Oracle*...
>

Most likely i misunderstood it.
Regarding the cpu's - this is from license agreement

http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/c...c.htm#BABHFGHA
Any use of the Oracle Database Express Edition is subject to the
following limitations; 1. Express Edition is limited to a single
instance on any server; 2. Express Edition may be installed on a
multiple CPU server, but may only be executed on one processor in any
server; 3. Express Edition may only be used to support up to 4GB of user
data (not including Express Edition system data); 4. Express Edition may
use up to 1 GB RAM of available memory.

Best regards

Maxim