New Web browsers play down TV-channel approach

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Web-browser manufacturers are discovering a lower-than-expected demand for 'push' technology in their shifting and competitive sector. Microsoft and Netscape are downplaying push technology as they prepare feisty marketing campaigns for their new Web browsing programs. Both companies have discovered that corporate technology managers worry about push technology overloading their internal networks, because push technology requires a steady stream of downloaded information. Home push technology users also have difficulty in obtaining regular information updates through their dial-up modems. Microsoft's new version of its Internet Explorer now allows users to avoid the addition of push channels to their PC startup screen during installation. Microsoft and Netscape instead are touting new software features that include strengthened electronic mail. Most Internet users find electronic mail to be more effective than push technology, according to market testing.

Internet services, Company internet strategy, Internet access software, Web browser, Web browsers, Push technology

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Why Oracle is having fits with an upstart known as Microsoft; Gates & Co. use price cuts, freebies to bolster share of business customers; Ellison's pleas on Capitol Hill

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Oracle is attempting to fend off a Microsoft push into the database management software market. Microsoft is slashing prices as well as initiating a $600 million giveaway in 1998 to sweeten its database, E-mail and other business systems. The Microsoft free offerings comprise training, technical support and marketing. Oracle still controls the $6.6 billion international database market with an approximate 28% share, according to market-research group Dataquest. The industry leader, however, is frustrated by Microsoft efforts to poach Oracle software and distribution partners who are angered by Oracle's competitive tactics. Oracle Chmn Larry Ellison testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Jul 1998, accusing Microsoft of seeking to extend its Windows influence. Microsoft, which is targeting an array of businesses, employed the same strategy to capture the PC desktop market.

Management, Planning, Software, Prices and rates, Database management systems, DBMS software, Company marketing practices, Ellison, Larry, Company business planning, DBMS, Company pricing policy

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H-P brings together high-tech's rivals to tackle Internet; electronic commerce strategy combines work of Oracle, Microsoft and Netscape

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HP is forming relationships with Microsoft, Oracle and Netscape Communications as part of a planned 'electronic business framework', which will combine new Internet-based technologies. The alliance among some of the industry's most competitive companies is designed to promote an Internet electronic commerce strategy. Oracle and Microsoft are supporting different versions of the network computer (NC). HP is working with Microsoft to reduce PC-related costs for corporations through the remote installation of software over networks and the ability to turn on network computers in order to install new software, even when they have been turned off for the night. HP is working with Oracle to develop technologies for secure electronic payments over the Internet. Sun Microsystems, which competes with HP in the workstation market, has not joined in this effort.

Software Publishers, Communication Software Pkgs, Computer industry, Product development, Hewlett-Packard Co., HWP, Electronic commerce, E-commerce, Telecommunications software, Company technology development

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