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14.5.3
What can we say? In the world of databases, this is the top dog. This is the
standard against which other database systems are measured. Oracle is the DB
that runs the “big applications” out there in the enterprise world. It is also a
costly piece of software when it is used for production applications. It is, how-
ever, available for free download to use for development. It is emphatically not
Free Software. You don't have the source code. You don't have the right to
modify it, and you don't have the right to pass it on to third parties. That may
or may not be an issue for you.
If you need advanced features like high-availability clustering, it is certain
that Oracle will work for you. You may download it for evaluation and
development from Oracle's OTN (Oracle Technology Network) 2 Web site.
Oracle
14.5.4
For the simple application we are developing, all of these databases are suffi-
cient. But in the real world, there could be many factors that might come to
bear upon your selection of a database server product. These factors might
include:
Selection Criteria
• Price
• License terms
• Transaction capacity (speed)
• Integration (does it work with or depend on other software you use?)
• Human resources (do you have operators and developers familiar with the
product on your staff, or are they available for hire?)
• Presence (does your organization already use this product?)
• Features (do you have future plans that might require a particular
product?)
14.6
B EING S ELF -C ONTAINED
One of the common difficulties with software that requires a database is how
to get the database structures up and running. Database storage is often not in
2. http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/othersoft.html
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