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New free developer version of the next-gen Oracle Database 23c!

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Re: New free developer version of the next-gen Oracle Database 23c!

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No security patches, 2 CPU/2GB RAM/12GB storage limits, and pretty much every advanced feature is missing ( https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2... ). In other words, about what you'd expect from ORCL.

Oracle: Not even once.

Re: New free developer version of the next-gen Oracle Database 23c!

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I am trying hard to see who could be the target audience for such a thing.

My best guess is engineers who are not currently employed, but who would like to up specifically their Oracle skills, as opposed to other valuable alternatives like Postgres.

Am I missing something?

Re: New free developer version of the next-gen Oracle Database 23c!

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I am trying hard to see who could be the target audience for such a thing. My best guess is engineers who are not currently employed, but who would like to up specifically their Oracle skills, as opposed to other valuable alternatives like Postgres. Am I missing something?

Simple VMs for testing purposes are useful for infrastructure consultants and developers, in niches where the products support Oracle as deployment database.

It's a smaller and smaller audience, because of cloud taking over, but someone still needs it.

Re: New free developer version of the next-gen Oracle Database 23c!

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Oracle just made its next version of the Oracle Database available for free, and to developers first!

This is not "the next version available for free", this is them refreshing the free offering they've had for more than a decade (previously known as Oracle XE). They do that every few years.

XE was released to match SQLServer Express, which in turn was released because MySQL and PostgreSQL were eating their lunch among small dev shops (they still are). Nowadays nobody cares, unless they have to maintain some legacy product.

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