11.   Oracle Corp., a leading supplier of corporate database software, cautioned securities analysts last Monday about the worsening outlook.

12.   That makes the Sun chip far better suited to working with large amounts of data in corporate databases or scientific supercomputing tasks.

13.   The company, which provides Internet searches to individuals, has also signed up scores of large businesses that pay fees for use as a corporate database.

14.   To improve the security of Internet communications, CommerceNet members will test new programs designed to keep hackers from reading electronic mail or tampering with corporate databases.

15.   BMC makes software designed to speed up corporate databases and backup network data.

16.   HP has big expectations for the Superdome servers, which are designed to run high-end corporate databases and Web sites on the UNIX operating system.

17.   Moreover, politicians are calling for new consumer protections as personal information becomes concentrated in corporate databases.