A Nigerian, Kehinde Adeyemi was among the first 12 winners of the Oracle Application Express Developer Competition 2009.
The Oracle Technology Network (OTN) conducted a competition to promote the development of new Oracle Application Express (APEX) applications by Oracle developers.
First Place: Eric Brandenburg - USA (Project: IT Access)
Second Place: Oscar Gordillo - Colombia ((Project: Bintech CRM)
Third Place: Matt Nolan - UK (Project: APEX Plugin Registry)
Fourth Place: Kehinde Adeyemi - Nigeria (Project: Drivers License and Vehicle Registration Application)
Fifth Place: Tobias Arnhold - Germany (Project: APEX-AT-WORK)
Sixth Place: Martin Giffy D'Souza - Canada (Project: APEX Rules & Guidelines)
Seventh Place: Niels De Brujin - Germany (Project: Time Management System v1.2)
Eighth Place: Dorensys (Company) - India (Project: Leave Management System)
Ninth Place: Kartik Patel - India (Project: Documentation & Content Management System (DCMS))
Tenth Place: Mohammed Tajuddin - Australia (Project: ABC School Management System)
Eleventh Place: Andrew Woodward - UK (Project: Portal for a suite of Apex applications)
Twelth Place: Wei Zheng - USA (Project: Tiny-ERP)
For further details about the winners' projects and the competition, click below:
Oracle Application Express Developer Competition 2009 (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/html/comp_winners.html)
Good show.
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* Linux x86
* Mac OS X Server
* Linux on PowerPC
* Linux x86-64
* z/Linux
* Linux Itanium
* Solaris x86
* Solaris Operating System (SPARC) (64 bit)
* AIX5L
* HP-UX PA-RISC
* HP Tru64 UNIX
* HP-UX Itanium
* OpenVMS Alpha
* OpenVMS Itanium