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 ...