As an IPB Oracle customer, I just thought that you guys might also be interested to know that Oracle will (in the next month or so) be releasing a free version (including royalty free distribution) called Oracle XE. Its limited to a 4GB database size (that's a lot of posts), 1GB of memory and 1 CPU. From what I have read about the inclusions/exclusions IPB should run on it without modification (Oracle Text - aka CTX is included).

I'm not wanting to start the whole oracle vs mssql vs mysql thing again, but for those of your customers comfortable with Oracle - it might be a good way to go :whistle:

Cheers,

Mike

I'm not wanting to start the whole oracle vs mssql vs mysql thing again,...

I'd like to see those tests on the same hardware ;)

But who has just 1CPU and 1GB of ram any more >_<