Oracle 11g XE (Express Edition), the free-of-charge version of Oracle’s flagship database, is now in beta. XE provides an “entry-level, small-footprint RDBMS” based on 11g Release 2 code, said Oracle ...

It may be “a year or two” before Oracle releases a no-cost Express Edition (XE) of its 11g database, according to Andrew Mendelsohn, the company’s senior vice president of database server technologies ...

Oracle is hoping that new security, testing, and management features offered in Oracle Database 11g will lead users to migrate to the major release of the vendor’s database sooner rather than later. [ ...

It may be "a year or two" before Oracle releases a no-cost Express Edition (XE) of its 11g database, according to Andrew Mendelsohn, the company's senior vice president of database server technologies ...