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To: Keith Monahan who wrote (416)	4/14/2000 7:33:00 AM
From: hasbeen101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 811

Could you comment on the reference to in the earnings release to the consulting staff of 60? How does this number compare to a few months ago? I would think service revenue should start to ramp up fairly quickly A couple of years ago, we always talked about how the software revenue growth was better than the total revenue growth, and how the overall trend would converge onto the software revenue trend. Now it's pretty much the other way around. It is much easier to achieve fast revenue growth through product sales than consulting services. I do not know the trend in consulting staff numbers, but I do know that learning this technology takes quite a while, so the ramp-up in services revenue will inevitably be modest compared with the 100% per year revenue growth that Oracle achieved for 7 years running when it was taking off.