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Date: 09/30 21:35 EST
COMPAQ PHILIPPINES CHIEF SEES ROSY FUTURE FOR PCs
Oct 01, 1999 (Asia Pulse via COMTEX) -- CEBU CITY, Oct 1 Asia Pulse A leading exponent of electronic business solutions has predicted a healthy growth of information technology in the Philippines.
Ng Chee Soon, president of Compaq Computers Philippines, cite the e-commerce law authored by Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. as among the significant building blocks of the digital age.
Soon also saw a rosy future for personal computers (PCs) with the advent of "supporting technologies."
He told reporters last Tuesday that "PCs will be getting more useful, more reliable and simpler to use. PCs gave the world a whole new way to work, play and communicate."
Compaq is the second-largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers.
Only last year, Compaq introduce a PC with "single-printing technology."
"Instead of signing on using a password - which is bound to be forgotten because there are so many of them - the new technology which compaq has developed allows the fingerprint of any human, unique to himself, to access the computer," he said.
He admitted, however, that it might take a while for the new Compaq PC model to be used on a massive scale.
During talks with Cebu business leaders last Monday, Soon said that in the fast-changing global economic environment, "speed and agility - not size - are giving companies the competitive edge."
This is why he urged them to engage in electronic business, the new globally accessible, round-the-clock, customer-driven way of doing business fueled by the pervasiveness of the Internet.
Soon theorized that businesses that embrace online businesses will become the future market leaders.
In the same forum, Darren Lockie, managing director of Microsoft Philippines, promoted corporate awareness on the Digital Nervous System, which he said was the culmination of the "next stage of the information Revolution."
"A digital nervous system isn't a thing. It's not something you buy out of a box," Lockie said.
Lockie said companies that embrace this approach are using technologyto ensure that employes can collect the knowledge that resides within the organization "to respond with creativity and speed to changes in the marketplace. One result is a new kind of corporate intelligence."
He spoke of speed as an essential ingredient for survival. The ability to adapt quickly to shifting demands in the marketplace has become a prerequisite for success, he said.
(PNA)
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