09/23/2004 Dell and Oracle this week began jointly promoting a packaged offering of Oracle's low-end Standard Edition One version of its 10g database on Dell hardware and running Windows Server 2003.

Oracle's 10g database lays the foundation for grid computing. The price for the standard edition of Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 is about $5,000, according to the company.

Oracle has made the beta for Windows and Linux freely available as a 150-Mbyte download to anyone who registers online. Some VARs applauded the move. “This builds a larger base of support ...

The company delivers seven new plug-ins for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control that will take care of monitoring, service-level management and diagnostics for .Net and Windows Server.

Oracle's 10g database lays the foundation for grid computing. The price for the standard edition of Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 is about $5,000, according to the company.

Microsoft currently has SQL Server 2000 priced close to $5,000, while IBM sells an Express edition of DB2 for $4,000 per processor. Last year, Oracle trimmed the price of its Standard Edition One ...