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To: Apollo who wrote (7856)	10/8/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: James Sinclair	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

Ellison Tries Again By Sylvia Carr 10/08/99 Get-Rich Tip: If at first you don't succeed, try again. Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison's network computer never got off the ground as planned the first time, and now he's at it again. Ellison looks to spin off a new company that makes $150, stripped-down desktop computers that run the Linux operating system. The move smacks of Ellison's previous foray into the hardware space. In the mid-'90s he launched a company called Network Computing Inc. to sell cheap, low-power business computers, but the pure NC concept never quite caught on. PCs soon got so cheap that the NC's low-cost billing seemed silly--why buy a stripped-down computer when you can get a loaded desktop for the same price? This time, Oracle is bringing operatiing system superstar Linux on board, and the NC still has some support from Sun. But what spin can he put on it that he hasn't already tried? OK, I'll bite. Let me put a Citrix client on that $150 box that can run all of my Windows applications off a central server farm. Remember, in the corporate world its not the cost of the box that's killing us, its the cost of managing all the software that runs on the box. The original NC idea failed because it assumed that everyone would give up their current applications for something written in Java. Now with Citrix and the ICA architecture, you don't have to give up the current application suite.