IBM to Join Software Fair'98

Bangkok--Nov 17--IBM IBM Thailand is set to showcase a wide range of business applcations developed by Thai business partners at Booth No. D03 of the software Fai'98 to be held at the Queen Sirikit national Convention Center form November 19-21. The decision is in support of the country's first official software exposition and conference organized by the newly established Association of Thai software Industry (ATSI), the Association of Thai Computer Industry (ATCI) and endorsed by the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NICTEC), said jadesada Kraisingkorn, Market Manager-Software. "This will also be an exposition of synergy between local application talents and the advantages of world-famous IBM software platforms. It is a strong base towards future export potential." The IBM booth will demonstrate applications for the industry Icading "IBM DB2 Universal Database" software: car and motorcycle hire purchase from Senior Com Co; data warehousing and data mining from PSP (Thailand0 Co; accounting and general ledger from Soft Square 1999 Co and Business & Technology Co. Other demonstrations are e-business and internet/intranet technology-based applications for "IBM Net.Commerce" software from LoxInfo Co; insurance applications for "IBM Visual Age for Java" software from Logic Co; IBM Online Analytical processing (OLAP), IBM DB2 and Tivoli IT Director software by compex (Thailand) Co; and Tivoli IT Director software by Metro Systmes Corp Plc. The IBM booth will also demonstrate its latest web-enabled software: awardwinning Visual Age for Java Version 2.0, a powerful tool for developing business applications that scale from Windows NT to OS/390 enterprise servers; San Francisco 1.3, the industry's first reusable and pre-tested java components that provide framework for quick development of e-business solutions and one of the world's largest java technology-based development programmes; WebSphere 1.0 an integrated transactional application server software family: and the world's most popular DB2 Universal Database 5.2 software. End.