Apex use in the enterprise?

Any Apex experts care to respond to the list of advantages / disadvantages that we have come up with - while doing due diligence for potential rollout of Apex as a development platform for the enterprise?
Many thanks in advance.
Please note that we know little to nothing about Apex. But we do know the database. I have read other threads in this forum where it is mentioned that all database utilites (dbms_*) are available to be used in apex - and this is a major plus point - agreed. Do know that metalink is apex based.
Would love to have oracle apex developers respond.
Oracle Application Express Architecture - Due Diligence
Advantages
(1)     RAD development for data centric Web applications.
(2)     Out of box support for some HTML page templates. For example, sort, search, save data to CSV, ...
(3)     Reduce required skill sets for PL/SQL developers on web application development.
(4)     Performance boost on a small scale non-enterprise Web applications.
(5)     Single vendor within integrated Oracle administration environment.
(6)     Out of box charting and reporting supports.
Disadvantages
(1)     Application operates within Oracle instance which imposes considerable resource overheads due to HTTP session tracking and JVM environment.
(2)     APEX supports through discussion forum not a formal support channel.
(3)     This two tier non-SOA data centric configuration requires high end machines to power up Oracle instances for mission critical applications. N-tier SOA architecture can easily scale up and scale out by using economic efficient hardware.
(4)     A non-traditional security configuration requires either database accounts or APEX accounts.
(5)     It requires very specific skill sets if future application enhancements does not fall into out of box APEX templates.
(6)     Single Sign On (SSO) requires add-on SDK which makes it quite difficult and sometimes impossible to integrate with other applications.
(7)     It operates under Oracle HTTP server with J2EE environment. This requires a different technology expertise for performance tuning.
(8)     APEX application is vendor specific and offers no portability at all.
Summary
(1)     APEX is targeted to replace MS Access like applications to provide better security, scalability and stability.
(2)     APEX is well suited for web RAD development by DBAs.
(3)     APEX is suited for data centric application such as maintain some database records….
(4)     APEX is not suited for provisioning services.
(5)     APEX is not suited for high volume transaction Web applications.
(6)     APEX is not suited for any applications required LDAP typed security or SSO.
(7)     APEX does not provide any portability outside of Oracle.

I think you need to review some of these comments..
Any Apex experts care to respond to the list of
advantages / disadvantages that we have come up with
- while doing due diligence for potential rollout of
Apex as a development platform for the enterprise?
Many thanks in advance.
Please note that we know little to nothing about
Apex. But we do know the database. I have read other
threads in this forum where it is mentioned that all
database utilites (dbms_*) are available to be used
in apex - and this is a major plus point - agreed. Do
know that metalink is apex based.
Would love to have oracle apex developers respond.
Oracle Application Express Architecture - Due
Diligence
Advantages
(1)     RAD development for data centric Web
applications.
(2)     Out of box support for some HTML page templates.
For example, sort, search, save data to CSV, ...
(3)     Reduce required skill sets for PL/SQL developers
on web application development.
(4)     Performance boost on a small scale non-enterprise
Web applications.
(5)     Single vendor within integrated Oracle
administration environment.
(6)     Out of box charting and reporting supports.
Disadvantages
(1)     Application operates within Oracle instance which
imposes considerable resource overheads due to HTTP
session tracking and JVM environment.What exactly is the point in this comment? APEX applications run in the database, they do NOT rely on the JVM...
(2)     APEX supports through discussion forum not a
formal support channel.APEX DOES get support from the standard Oracle tech support. However, I would think it is faster to post a message HERE and get a response from the actual developers of the product than having to go through channels..
(3)     This two tier non-SOA data centric configuration
requires high end machines to power up Oracle
instances for mission critical applications. N-tier
SOA architecture can easily scale up and scale out by
using economic efficient hardware.However hearty a db server you have now should suffice for using APEX. YOu are in reality running SQL statements against the database.
(4)     A non-traditional security configuration requires
either database accounts or APEX accounts.NOT TRUE. Please review documents again.. YOu can BUILD internal security in application, or rely on LDAP or Single Sign on from Oracle..
(5)     It requires very specific skill sets if future
application enhancements does not fall into out of
box APEX templates.HTML and CSS development skills. If you develop web sites, you should be comfortable with this..
(6)     Single Sign On (SSO) requires add-on SDK which
makes it quite difficult and sometimes impossible to
integrate with other applications.Wrong here again. Please refer to documentation.
(7)     It operates under Oracle HTTP server with J2EE
environment. This requires a different technology
expertise for performance tuning.Sorry, what again?
(8)     APEX application is vendor specific and offers no
portability at all.Unlike ASP or ASP.NET from M$? Or what vendor independent products are you thinking of? Pearl? Ruby on Rails? APEX RUNS in the database, so you'd think it just MIGHT be specific to an Oracle database and Oracle product..
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>
Summary
(1)     APEX is targeted to replace MS Access like
applications to provide better security, scalability
and stability.More than that actually..
(2)     APEX is well suited for web RAD development by
DBAs.NOT Even close.. Developers DO use it.. DBA's support the database end..
(3)     APEX is suited for data centric application such
as maintain some database records….Not even going to try and get into this.. Data centric applications? What would a non data centric application be again?
(4)     APEX is not suited for provisioning services.Explain this one, please..
(5)     APEX is not suited for high volume transaction
Web applications.Hmm, you mean like Oracle Metalink? Or Ask Tom? These ARE high traffic sites, and gooly gee, they ARE built using APEX..
(6)     APEX is not suited for any applications required
LDAP typed security or SSO.Wrong here, please read the documentation.
(7)     APEX does not provide any portability outside of
Oracle.And how could it, it is based in the database.....
Shesh, does that mean because I can't use a fishing pole to catch deer it has no purpose?
Tony Miller
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