Oracle 10g Express Edition

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Oct 292005
 

Oracle has release beta versions of the Express Edition (XE), a free (yes!) 10g release 2 database server with HTML_DB preinstalled. XE has some limitations over the real 10g database, but these are things like high-availability, advanced replication (basic is there), Java/JSP support, automatic storage management, etc. Things for the big players. XE is obviously targetted at developers and end-users currently looking at/using SQL Server Express.

OracleXE 10g limitations:
– it runs at the speed of a single CPU on multi-CPU machines
– the database cannot exceed 4GB
– only one installation and one instance (you can create more, but start only one) per machine

But: Oracle 10g XE is FREE!

 Posted by at 08:42

House for sale (Enschede)

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Oct 292005
 

If you are looking for a house in the eastern part of the country, perhaps I can help you out. My house in Enschede is for sale. It’s located in the centre part of the city, so on walking distance from a lot of pubs, restaurants and shops. As well on walking distance you’ll find schools, public transport, the hospital, churches, the “Volkspark” (literaly translates to: the common peoples park).
Need more info? Contact me!

 Posted by at 00:33

The beta experience is over!

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Oct 282005
 

The beta-experience is over, Microsoft has finished Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0. Both Visual Studio and SQL Server are available already to MSDN subscribers. The .NET Framework can be downloaded here.

I already signed up for the Vista and Office12 beta experiences.

 Posted by at 07:39