These are good news, not only is Santa Claus coming next week, there will also be an early adopter online release of Oracle APEX 4.0!
There is nothing for sure at the moment, but it looks like this would be an online-only release, so nothing to download and test on your local database, more like http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn .
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