POLL: Your background and your interest in Oracle XE

Hi,
I am really curious about the "audience" or potential "customers" of Oracle XE.
Please help me to understand the requirements for an entry-level book about XE I am going to write :-).
What is :
- your programming background
- the databases used previously
- the platform(s) you want to use XE and
- the projects you want to use XE for.
Basically I want to understand,
where you come from (technically)
and
how you want to use XE (platform and programming languages)
in order to write a book people like you can really get started.
What would you like to see in this book?
Thanks a lot for your feedback, I really appreciate it,
~Dietmar.

Dietmar, Where to start ...
A) One of my interests in XE is to implement any number of applications that would have traditionally been written in MS Access. As an independant Oracle consultant, the two questions that come at me most often are:
1) What is the least expensive and fastest way of providing a database application to do ... (which I usually turn down, because they have Access 'expertise' who can 'do the job for less' - why compete, as)
followed, four months later, by
2) Something went wrong with the Access database when we put it on a 'share' and had 15 people use it at the same time. How can we fix this, now that we've become dependent on the application ...
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition will eliminate question 2) entirely by allowing me to implement the application using ApEx when they ask question 1)
B) In addition, as a trainer/instructor, (registered with Oracle University to teach all Oracle9i and 10g DB, AS and language technical courses), one thing that has bothered me tremendously is that secondary schools, colleges, and universities have been teaching programming, yet very few have taught Oracle, or even plain SQL - never mind taught it 'properly'. (In part, this has been due to perceived high license costs for Oracle - I even know of one that still teaches using old Oracle7 licenses.)
I now see the possibility of creating XE-based Oracle courses. It may even be possible to include the XE environment on CD in the book cover, together with all the labs and perhaps solutions.
(In fact, I'm kinda working on one right now ... hopfully to be timed with release of SQL Developer and possibly using JDeveloper as well. Just need to focu .... er, focus - as I have a few diversions in my life. When it kicks in, my hobby takes a lot of time.)
I also see books like Tom Kyte's and Jonathan Lewis' coming with XE and the samples and tests so that people can verify the examples in a controlled environment.
As for my background - started programming in 1969; became an Electrical Engineer in 1979; joined Nortel in 1979 and worked on telephone exchanges - designing, programming, troubleshooting; got involved with Oracle v4 when asked to lead a team to implement a trouble ticketing database in 'some SQL system'; lead technologist for an Oracle-based apps company (competitor to PeopleSoft) from 91-96; Oracle Principal [pre-sales] Consultant for the North American communications vertical 96-03; independent Java, Linux & Oracle pusher since then.
What I'd like to see in the book? Well .... Oracle By Example comes to mind ... let's talk!
/Hans

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