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With respect to growing needs for storage, Oracle Database 11g XE now offers a full 11GB for user data alone, which is almost threefold increase since previous 4GB limit in Oracle Database 10g XE. Other hardware restrictions remain the same with CPU usage capped at one physical core and memory at 1GB. Oracle Database 11g XE is available immediately for Windows and Linux platforms. Oracle Application Express (APEX) remains one of the most actively developed Oracle Database features, with two important milestones reached since the 2.1 release that was included with Oracle Database 10g XE. First, Oracle APEX 3.0 brought PDF printing, Access migration, page caching, and a number of builder enhancements. Then, release 4.0, which is bundled with 11g XE in the form of Oracle APEX 4.0.2, introduced Web sheets - a unique technology for effortless content management where users take control of both content and structure of exposed data. Other improvements include native dynamic actions, a plug-ins framework, team features for