Oracle Express. Right for us?

Hi All,
I am using Oracle 10g Express Edition. I explored Oracle Express and followed demonstartion/examples provided.
I am thinking of developing web-based small application involving following 2 modules as follows:
1) Timesheet for freelancers.
2) Invoice Processing.
My questions are as follows:
1) Is Oracle 10g Express Edition right choice for this?
2) I am now comfortable developing the application. But not sure how can I make this application accessible from outside.
Experts please let me help in this or send me some links which can help me.
Thanks in advance.

user7322857,
Firstly a name would be nice rather than user7322857 :-)
I have some experience very similar to what you are asking and can provide the following detail:
1. I have deployed Oracle XE onto a Windows 2003 Server box and it runs trouble free for a couple of years
2. The initial reason to use Apex was to build a Time Sheet application to replace a very clunky and non-scalable Access DB written system
3. We use the Apex user repository to provide authentication and user management although we are looking at integrating with AD
4. The Time Sheet app is used by over 200 users on a daily basis from several locations, including home workers using a VPN, the networking side of things was sorted out by our network admins
5. The success of this one app has led us to build a suite of other apps and we are converting a lot of Excel/Access based "systems" to Apex and getting a lot of excellent feedback from our business colleagues about our ability to deliver very useful apps very quickly.
So my personal opinion is that the combination of XE and Apex is probably right for you, and as Roel points out if your company cant host your DB there are plenty of hosting companies out there offering good value Apex hosting - or you could look at using Amazon EC2 http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1720&categoryID=205
cheers,
stu
Edited by: macmanxie on May 12, 2009 7:42 PM

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