Did you know that Oracle 10g Express edition is free for download?
It is very useful for programmers like us and also for small business owners.
It has ALL the features of Oracle 10g standard Edition except the following.
1)It can utilize only 1GB of RAM
2)It can utilize only one Processor in a multiprocessor system
3)The database size limit is 4GB
Otherwise all the features of 10g are present in this!!!!
(It has been some time since they came up with this. Whatever I like this concept )
Here's the link.
http:// www . oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/index.html
(I've downloaded and installed at home. It works like a beauty. But I've uninstalled it now and am using SQL Server 2005 Express(Which is also free!) for my database testing purposes as Oracle didn't have any mercy on my PC's RAM. It used to suck up all my RAm which SQL Server when idle uses less than 10times the RAM needed for Oracle!!!)
Anyway, Give it a try.
Have fun!
Cheers,
Kalayama