Oracle Polska looks to state contracts until IT market recovers

Paweł Piwowar, the CEO of Oracle Polska said in an interview on Friday, that his company sees government contracts as the main source of revenue this ye ar after last year's fall in IT spending by its traditional customers, the banking and telecommunications sectors. A key target for Oracle Polska is to maintain last year's record sales of zł. 270 million. Piwowar expects that at the earliest private sector companies will increase IT spending in 2004, although many large firms are already working to upgrade their Enterprise R esource Planning (ERP) systems ahead of EU entry. Oracle Polska is also cou nting on future close cooperation with ComputerLand, the second largest nat ional IT firm, and reciprocal investment contracts by U.S. firms related to the purchase of F16 fighter jets. (Parkiet, p. 11) A.K.