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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob Eskimo who wrote (5343)	2/4/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: Teri Skogerboe	Respond to of 19080

Another positive article. It's okay with me if Larry Ellison wants to unleash some of his competitive nature on these newish projects -g-. BANGKOK, THAILAND, 1998 FEB 3 (NB) -- By Jirapan Boonnoon, The Nation. Oracle [NASDAQ:ORCL] plans to set up regional network computing (NC) laboratories in Singapore and Australia in the second quarter to push the network computing concept in the region. The NC laboratories will showcase the use of network computing as well as test NC products for real use and provide training to familiarize information technology (IT) staff with the new computing concept. Oracle (Thailand) Managing Director Natasak Rodjanapiches said network computing will become increasingly popular as it can help reduce operating costs while improving productivity. The company will also use the laboratories to display its latest applications. In the past, network computing has been merely an intangible concept with no real reference to indicate how it can be successfully adopted. Oracle hopes customers will use its NC centers to test its NC-based hardware and other products, and see demonstrations. He said initially the centers will showcase products for the banking industry and registration applications for education institutions. He hoped that the network computing concept will carve out a role for itself in Thailand by the second quarter of this year. "Initially, network computing will be based on the English language since the company's network computer products do not serve the Thai language. However, I expect that by next year there will be Thai-based NC applications available," he said. The company is waiting for Sun Microsystems to develop an NC operating system to support the Thai language, but in the meantime Oracle is concentrating on providing services to deal with the Millennium Bug. The company recently set up a regional Year 2000 (Y2K) support team to help customers solve the Y2K problems. Oracle Vice President Mark Israelsen said the regional Y2K team provides services to clients regardless of whether they are Oracle customers. It has proposed its Y2K services to 40 companies in the region. Natasak said this year the company plans to offer consultancy services to help customers choose the most appropriate computer systems for their organizations. The consultancy business is growing rapidly, generating 20 percent of the company's revenue last year with a 50 percent growth rate. Reported by Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com