This blog was originally published on July 07, 2015.

At the recent ODTUG Kscope15 conference, the new Oracle Application Express Community application was rolled out.  This is a vastly improved site to proudly advertise the successes of the growing global Oracle Application Express community.  Also at the same ODTUG Kscope15 conference, the Twitter hashtag #letswreckthistogether was fully explained.  Succinctly stated, countless brilliant customers have validated the application development thesis which is Oracle Application Express, and without any fear or hesitation, we are collectively going to tell the world about it.

One of the areas added to the community site are Quotes, and this is your opportunity to help the Oracle Application Express community flex their muscle.  Are you doing more with less?  Are you writing applications which support thousands of users on modest hardware?  Are you solving problems today which previously went unsolved?  No need to embellish facts.  Let the empirical evidence speak for itself.

 

Submitting a quote couldn’t be easier, and the approval process can all be done via email.  It’s easy as 1, 2, 3:

1)  You submit a quote by visiting the Oracle Application Express Community site, click on Quotes and then Submit Quote.

2)  We put your quote, title, organization name on a PDF and send it back to you via email, and with the following text in the body of the email:

Thank you for working with us to put together the attached quote/slide. Oracle would like to distribute these materials. This includes posting them on and making them available for download through the Oracle Web site and social media sites. In addition, we would like to use portions of these materials, including your corporate logo and quotes attributed to your employees, in Oracle marketing materials. Please confirm that [Your Organization Name] approves by responding that you approve.

In terms of the next steps:

a)  Please review the attached slide and quote for accuracy 

b)  Please attach a company logo that at a minimum is a JPEG, bitmapped logo that is clearly read when sized at a maximum 160 pixels wide, 80 pixels high.  Other options are Illustrator .ai  and .eps files, which can be resized without degradation.

c)  Please respond to this email granting approval.

3) You send a reply email with your organization’s logo, and that you approve.

That’s all there is to it!

 

Not only will you be helping the Oracle Application Express community, you ultimately will be helping yourself too.  If you are a consultancy and you convince your customers to provide a quote, the quote can also reference your consultancy (just like the very first quote from CROATIA osiguranje and consulting partner, BiLog).  If you’re a customer and love APEX, and you want to increase the available pool of resources for Application Express, here is your chance to show university students, PL/SQL developers, and all others that there is growing demand for these skills.  

 

Getting approval from your employer for a quote is never easy, and it takes time and effort.  We understand.  But it’s worth asking.  We’re convinced that we can reach at least 100 customer quotes by the end of 2015, and we would like you to be a part of this.  Don’t worry if you don’t work at a Global Fortune 1000 company – all customer uses of Oracle Application Express, both big and small, are valuable.  We want to hear from you!

We at Oracle know there are hundreds of thousands of Oracle Application Express developers worldwide, who are solving problems both big and small with Oracle Application Express, Oracle REST Data Services and the Oracle Database.  Now is your opportunity to be unafraid and boast!  #LetsWreckThisTogether