(ā'pěks)

At the ODTUG APEXposed conference in Atlanta this week, a customer asked me to blog about how to abbreviate and pronounce the abbreviation for Oracle Application Express. I've seen numerous abbreviations (Apex, ApEx, APPEx, AppEx, APEX), and I think the lack of a formal abbreviation lends to the confusion in pronunciation. So here goes:

1. Whenever an abbreviation is used in informal writing, it's abbreviated in all uppercase: APEX
   
   
2. It's pronounced (ā'pěks). It's a long 'A' as in 'acorn'.
   
   
3. In formal written materials from Oracle, it is always written as 'Oracle Application Express' and never abbreviated.

In conversation and in some presentation materials, you will see the Oracle Application Express team use the above spelling and pronunciation.