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OCR: CAN YOU REMEMBER WHY RE-ENGINEERING WAS SUCH A GOOD SPECIAL REPORT cable industry, apart from IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE? delivering movies to the home, would like to be the phone provider once voice and video are digitised. The big battle is thus for digital entry into the home. Both the cable and telecom companies want to be the ones providing the lines into the home and to be free to deliver any digital data type over these lines. Although both industries have been working on this technology for some time, each has distinct problems. The cable companies have lines into 70 per cent of US homes. But they will need major NOBODY ACCELERATES THE PROCESS FASTER THAN ORACLE. compression schemes in order to deliver the hundreds of channels they plan to make available to the consumer market. The telecom ORACLE® players already have lines into the home, but ORACLE SYSTEMS S.E.A. (S) PTE LTD the lines are 8 Shenton Way #22-02 Treasury Building Singapore 0106 twisted-pair and, Open Cheut Server Systems Tel: 220-5488 Fax: 226-1516 despite high-