To: Galirayo who wrote (21408 ) 10/16/2000 8:18:04 PM From: Ken W Respond to of 29382 Hi Ray, Hope the ribs were good. I could smell them as you were talking about the aroma wafting about. LOL Filled on ORCL today at 35: In partnering with EAI-Unigraphics Solutions, iEngineer.com, PartMiner, SDRC and WebEx, Oracle enters the emerging market of Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) applications to promote product innovation. Oracle Product Development Exchange provides a collaboration hub where companies can collaboratively manage project information and product design information in a secure, web based multi-company repository. By using the Internet to eliminate friction and unnecessary steps in the design process, companies can truly lower product costs and reduce time to market driving real supply chain improvements. ``Oracle Product Development Exchange will facilitate a level of collaboration in development and design that has been unavailable in the market,'' said Kurt Robson, vice president, Oracle Corp. ``With our new strategic partnerships and the interoperability of Oracle Product Development Exchange to all existing Oracle Exchange and E-Business Suite functionality, Oracle Product Development Exchange brings to the market a complete and robust solution for product information and document management, project collaboration and product development intelligence.'' Oracle Product Development Exchange is available now as part of the industry-leading Oracle Exchange. As a sponsor of the CIMdata Conference in Barcelona, Spain on October 24th - 26th, Oracle plans to demonstrate Oracle Product Development Exchange integrated with partner solutions there for the first time. Ken