Harry Fuecks at SitePoint - Oracle 10g XE and PHP:

“In case you missed it, yesterday Oracle announced a free (as in beer) version of their database - Oracle 10g Express Edition (XE) - basically a ‘lite’ version - some industry analysis here. Significance of this move aside, more interesting is having a play. Managed to get the equivalent of a ‘Hello World’ from PHP to Oracle up in under 1.5 hours today (ran into a specific glitch that required a re-install otherwise would have been less time). Here’s how…”