Apex new demo apps not compatible with oracle xe apex: your opinion

Question

Hi,
I post here only to ask why new apps are compatible only with apex 2.2.
Is apex 2.2. so different from apex include in Oracle Xe?
Not so much by me.
Oracle xe under my opinion and as Oracle says as well his an dmbs
that let you grow your organization, but my question again is:
why distribute Xe without an update apex 2.2 ?
By the way i've looked at all application demo built on apex 2.2. and by me they can be built as well using 'apex xe'.
My question again is: is a good politcs build demo apps that runs only on apex 2.2 when Oracle distribute apex xe free to deploy / develop and with apex bundled in it but not upgradable(or better with some tricks i've successfully installed 2.2 on apex, but it's not supported)?
Is so difficult to distribute an Oracle xe version with an up to apex each time and a backward compatibility?
My opinion is that oracle lose a lot of potential and growing user at that time.
Thanx to hear your opinion as well

Answer 1

Hi Chris,
i agree: the point is that under my opinion apex has really a big potential.
This potential lies as well in the nr of user.
I've built a quite complex marketing apps that have been used to estabilish our office in Singapore.Without Apex and with my daily task this would be unthinkable at to such an application.
I mean: oracle xe has been built with a really good purpose in mind: let grow little - medium company to medium -bigger.
In the first phase is unthinkable at all for a firm to have:
- an in house group of developer.
- an expensive Oracle commercial licence.
With apex i think you can build (however after a couple of month of few practice):
- very stable application.
- has a really convenient way of deployment (compared with maybe a microsoft access environment with different office version and different pcs...).
- a very very fast way of development that can hide (if your are enough creative and feel confident with Apex) the scripting language for the bost common task based on data logic.
Now again, who lose there is Oracle, why a tool like apex under my opinion can really increased the number of customer that change to Oracle commercial license.
If the free version of Apex isn't supported as the official one, a lot of user could leave the choice of adopting Xe today (only because a demo app at first sight doesn't seem to work), and Oracle10g in the future.
Bye