Exactly twenty-four years ago to the date, I started my first job out of college with Oracle in Bethesda, MD. I still vividly remember that day – right down to the part where I descended into the tunnel that passes under Wisconsin Ave. thinking it was the Metro, only to end up on the other side of the street looking totally lost. For the first few years there, I moved from one sales consulting role to another, supporting clients across state, local, federal, higher education and even communications verticals with their eBusiness Suite technical needs. Most of my days were spent preparing and delivering demonstrations to all kinds of customers. I cut my teeth on both Oracle and UNIX in those days, as we had to build our own portable demo systems that ran on “portable” SPARC-clones called Tadpoles. Remember those? Didn’t think so. It wasn’t until around 2002 that I was introduced to APEX and tasked to build a couple of demos with a pre-release version of it. Even after that brief
Mostly Oracle APEX. Mostly.