If that's your requirement, then Oracle Enterprise Edition (including support for 64-bit Windows) is free "only for the purpose of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your application". Many users want Oracle XE just to learn Oracle or to test an application with Oracle. VMWare or other virtualization systems work equally well. VirtualBox is a natural choice because it's free and Oracle provides pre-configured VMs with Oracle DB installed. If your goal is simply to run Oracle on a 64 bit Windows machine, then running Oracle in a Virtual Machine may be a good solution. Following is the link to the Oracle 10g Release 2 Client for Windows: Important: As of April 8, 2014, Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP with security updates. But for many folks this is a good solution. Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g. This is unsupported, of course, and session trace is known to fail. This blog post seems to be the one most often cited as helpful. Many people have successfully installed the 32 bit Oracle XE software on 64 bit Windows. The paid versions of Oracle (Standard/Enterprise) support 64-bit Windows. Therefore, these are the classes of solutions: There is no Oracle Express Edition for 64 bit Windows. This answer combines those answers into a more useful form as well as adding two more solutions. It has 5 different helpful answers that say quite different but complementary things (surprising, eh?).
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