Hi.

Personal and Lite are not the same thing.

Lite is intended to be used to deploy application on PDA, notebooks etc. It is designed to support syncronization with a main systems. Early versions of Lite did look like a small version of Oracle, but now it doesn't resemble it at all. Think of it more as a mobile application support system rather than a little database.

Personal is the same as standard edition with a few bits switched off and some simple admin tools. It's still got a huge footprint and it does cost money, but it's price is in the £100s rather than £1000s.

Some distribution disks give you the option of installing personal from the EE CDs, some do not.

You can download it from otn.oracle.com, but if you're doing it to check the product out you might as well get EE and be done with it.

Cheers