A couple of days ago, at the regional Oracle Cloud World (OCW) in Singapore and Austin Texas, it was announced that from now on the free developer version of Oracle Database 23c is available for download, great news!
You have the complete announcement Here
I have prepared a video tutorial where I show you how to import the virtual machine in VirtualBox and create a workspace in Oracle APEX 22.2.
The machine comes with the following products installed:
– Oracle Linux 8.7
– Oracle Database 23.2 Free
– Developer Release for Linux x86-64
– Oracle REST Data Services 23.1
– Oracle SQLcl 23.1 – Oracle APEX 22.2
Here is the link where you can download the virtual machine: https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/databaseappdev-vm.html