There has been a lot of confusion over Oracle licensing with regard to APEX. Surely Oracle can’t be providing something that’s free?! What’s the catch? As an Oracle Partner we’re able to develop software using Oracle products under the OTN development license which means it doesn’t cost us, however, this only covers developing and prototyping software. We’ve used APEX for internal applications such as a Flash application to record annual leave requests and to schedule work but as soon as we wanted to use this in a live environment we fell outside the OTN license, which meant we had to pay for a license. This is something my company wasn’t keen to do for internal applications. Read the rest of this entry »

For the past month we’ve been moving from a 9i database in a Windows environment to an Oracle XE database on Redhat Linux. A bit of a difference. As a software house we use Oracle products under a development license but because we wanted to go live with in-house developed APEX applications that fall outside the development license we faced moving to XE or paying for an Oracle license. What would you do? Read the rest of this entry »