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To: Alan Hume who wrote (10487)	11/27/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: REH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

BRIEFING - ASIA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - NOV 27, 1998 Nov 27, 1998 (Asia Pulse via COMTEX) -- An executive briefing on information technology for Nov 27, 1998, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities. KOREA AIMS TO COMPLETE PROGRAM FOR Y2K PROBLEMS BY YR-END SEOUL - A government committee said Friday it will aim at completing a computer program within this year to prevent the "Y2K" computer glitch from wrecking havoc on the financial sector. Committee members said the program will be put on a trial run in March and April to ensure it functions properly. WORLDWIDE SALES OF CHIPMAKING EQUIPMENT PLUNGE 55.9 PCT TOKYO - Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment plunged 55.9% from a year earlier to 1.53 billion yen in September, the fifth straight month to see a decline, according to figures compiled by the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ) and the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). South Korea's industry suffered the largest decline, with 74.1%, while Japan saw a fall of 60.5%, Taiwan 58.3%, North America 50.7% and Europe 44.2%. Decreases exceeded those posted in August in each of these regions. FOUR OF FIVE JAPAN CHIPMAKERS POST NET LOSSES IN 1H TO SEPT TOKYO - Four of five major semiconductor and computer makers posted consolidated net losses in the fiscal first half ended September, with Fujitsu Ltd. (TSE:6702) showing a sharp profit decline amid falling prices of memory chips and personal computer parts, according to reports released by Thursday. Hitachi Ltd. (TSE:6501) recorded a group net loss of 142.2 billion yen (US$1.166 billion) against a profit of 37.7 billion yen a year earlier, and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (TSE:6503) posted a loss of 31.8 billion yen (US$260.8 million), compared with a loss of 26.2 billion yen the previous year, the companies reported Thursday. FUJITSU WINS TOKYO EXCHANGE COMPUTER TRADING SYSTEM ORDER TOKYO - Fujitsu Ltd. (TSE:6702) has received an order to build a computer trading system for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, company sources said Thursday. The current system, provided and run by Hitachi Ltd. (TSE:6501), crashed in August 1997 due to a program error and interrupted transactions. The TSE is going ahead with plans to upgrade the system in response to the Big Bang financial reforms, which are expected to affect trading. CANON TO SET UP SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE IN INDIA NEW DELHI - Japanese consumer imaging equipment major Canon Thursday said it would set up a software development centre in India to provide business equipment related software technologies for the company worldwide. The centre, to be set up in Delhi at a cost of US$1 million, would design sophisticated software for use in Canon products world over, Muneo Adachi, director, Canon said here. SUN, LUCENT FOLLOW MICROSOFT TO INDIA'S HYDERABAD CITY HYDERABAD - Giving a double blow to India's silicon valley Bangalore, global computer giants Sun Microsystems and Lucent Technologies are planning to locate their proposed software development centres at the newly set up Hitech City here in another southern city, Hyderabad. "Two teams from Sun Microsystems and one from Lucent Technologies visited the city this month to explore chances of setting up their software development centres here," secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Information technology Department R Chandrasekharan told the Press Trust of India (PTI) here. MALAYSIAN MINISTER SEES MORE GROWTH FOR IT SECTOR KUALA LUMPUR - With economic recovery providing the push, the information technology industry can expect significant growth potential and benefits from the nation's and the region's development over the long term, said the Malaysian Minister of International Trade and Industry Rafidah Aziz Thursday. She said at the same time, the information technology (IT) industry must assume the catalystic role in driving forward the growth and development processes. CALL FOR ASIAN COMPANIES TO LOOK AT OUTSOURCING KUALA LUMPUR - Outsourcing is a relatively new business service for Asian companies and should be evaluated by every medium to large business, said Glen Rasmussen, managing director of Rascoe Development Ltd. In his paper "Outsourcing in Asia" delivered at the ASOCIO (Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation) 16th General Assembly and Symposium in Petaling Jaya Thursday he said outsourcing included data centre operations, disaster recovery, business continuity, network management, desktop services, applications development and support, as well as call centres and help desk operation. MITSUBISHI SOLID STATE UV LASER BOASTS 20 WATT OUTPUT TOKYO - Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said it has developed a solid state ultraviolet laser with a world-class maximum power output of 20 watts. Developed in cooperation with Osaka University and the optical crystal specialist KogakuGiken Co., the new UV laser is twice as powerful as any other solid state UV laser created to date. JAPAN'S ADVANTEST TO OFFER TESTING SET FOR RAMBUS DRAMS TOKYO - Advantest Corp. (TSE:6857) will market a complete set of hardware and software systems in December for testing Direct Rambus dynamic random-access memory chips (DRAMs) developed by Rambus Inc. of the U.S., company officials said. The firm aims to sell 100 sets a year of the Rambus Testing Set, priced at about 300 million yen.

To: Alan Hume who wrote (10487)	11/27/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Alan, Your honest reflections are refreshing. What are you going to do? Buy back in on a dip? Where's the dip going to come? Just be long and happy. Barry