Oracle Forms vs APEX for Web Development

Could you please suggest me which Oracle Technology will be better suitable give flexibility for developing a web application of Information processing.
1). Oracle Forms (Web)
or
2) Oracle Application express
and also please explain the how it is good comparative other.

I think you should also include the licensing issues in application development/deployment plans. As you might know, Forms requires iDS (for development) and iAS EE (for deployment) licenses. For JDeveloper and ADF, the development platform is free and the iAS Java version is much cheaper compared to the iAS EE license. When it comes to APEX licensing, it is free as long as the database server is properly licensed. For a small size company, APEX and the JDeveloper + ADF and iAS Java version makes perfect sense. Because Forms Services is only a part of the EE version of the iAS server, it might be an expensive option for a small scale application. On the other hand iAS EE is very capable and scaleable framework and you can deploy both J2EE, Forms, Reports, Discoverer, Portal applications from a single platform.
Hope this proves useful.
Zafer

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