Part 1: The Future of - apex.world

Thanks for sharing

Hi Juergen,

Thanks for your honest opinion.

You might be interested in how your users are using APEX.world. For me the reason I am so happy using apex.world is that I can keep up with the latest news about APEX. The links to the great blog post are very useful to me. Just the middle column. The other two columns I hardly look at.

I would be really sad if you would have stopped this news channel. Because it really helps me during my daily development work.

About your comment over the new features in APEX. I agree upon that it would be very nice if the APEX team would also spend enough time to improve the long awaited improvements on the existing functionality. Because that is what we as developers have to deal with every working day. Some of the changes wouldn't take much time to build, but would save us a lot of time.

But I am still very glad that I can work with APEX day in day out. It is such a great tool.

Regards,

Mathieu

Hi Juergen, Like you, I am an old hand using APEX. I started with HTMLDB 1.5 beta. You may remember me from other conversations we had and I am big FOEX user, which now will have to come to an end.

Back to standard APEX. Yes, we have FOS and I am not even sure what is going to happen with that. I had requirements that could not be met by APEX and so I ventured into the FOEX world. I am just disappointed that APEX is still not fixing/enhancing the core product and focussing on all these new things like AI etc. I understand that they have to be seen doing the hot buzzword technology bandwagon. I would love to see some of the great capabilities of FOEX find their way into APEX, but I am not holding my breath.

Over the years, like you, I had to fight Oracle Sales on using APEX. Understandable as it is a free product. Yep fighting the projects which would prefer Java and .Net and the never wavering "Excel can do that for me". And migrating the Forms Application to APEX is a nice buzzword until you get into the complex applications and people expect a similar UI. This is where you would like to see improvements in standard APEX which would make this transition a bit easier and have APEX support at least some of the capabilities of FORMS which were there for the last 20+ years.

Please continue with APEX.WORLD. Happy to become a contributing member. There is a lot of value in it. I would like to see that Find Developers is being limited to only people who are truly available as a developer full time, part time and have at least experience. Too many hopefuls or irrelevant people there. If they want to make themselves known to the community create a separate section.

Keep on trucking ;-)

Raymond

Now, I am really curious about Part 2 :-)

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