Oracle’s long-awaited 12c database is now available for download, according to the company’s official website. Download links for the product were available on the site as of late Tuesday.

Oracle (ORCL 7.84%) has been in the database business for more than 40 years. Its database software, running on customers' hardware and increasingly in the cloud, is mission-critical for a wide ...

About a year and a half ago, Oracle introduced Oracle 10g Standard Edition One, a version aimed at mid-size companies where Microsoft has many customers. That database is limited to two processors ...