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To: ItsAllCyclical who wrote (2738)	4/16/1998 2:23:00 AM
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To: ItsAllCyclical who wrote (2738)	4/16/1998 8:17:00 AM
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Technology News Thu, 16 Apr 1998, 7:38am EDT BN 4/15 Oracle CEO Says NCI Unit to Supply Software for Cable Boxes Oracle CEO Says NCI Unit to Supply Software for Cable Boxes Redwood Shores, California, April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Oracle Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Lawrence Ellison said the company's Network Computer Inc. affiliate soon will announce an agreement with a U.S. cable television company to supply software for its next generation of digital set-top boxes. Network Computer, a joint venture of Oracle and Netscape Communications Corp., said in March that its software will be used in Cable & Wireless Plc's cable TV boxes. NCI, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and other technology companies have been competing to provide components for digital set-top boxes. Using the new devices, consumers will be able to access the Internet and receive data and interactive TV programming over high-speed cable links to their homes. ''We'll announce a huge deal in the United States coming up,'' Ellison said, speaking at Oracle's Java strategy day. He didn't offer specific details, and an NCI spokesman declined to comment. Microsoft said in January that it would supply the operating system software for about 5 million of Tele-Communications Inc.'s set-top boxes. Sun Microsystems also signed an agreement to provide software for some of TCI's boxes. --Mylene Mangalindan in the San Francisco newsroom (415) 912-2991/smw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ c Copyright 1998, Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved. regards, Giota