(FORTUNE Magazine) – If you're a technosavvy road warrior bothered that every time you want to tap into the company database you have to find a phone jack to connect your laptop via modem, fear no more. Database software designer Oracle and RAM Mobile Data, a national wireless network, are taking you a step closer to what you think you've always wanted: the ability to work anyplace, anytime, anywhere. Later this year Oracle will start offering software to ease wireless access to corporate databases via the RAM network. Till now, corporate users of wireless, like RAM subscribers Eastman Kodak and Unisys, have had to go through hoops to do more than just exchange E-mail with headquarters. The new technology will make it easier for, say, a sales rep in Idaho to wirelessly ask the corporate database whether a part is available. His query will trigger software at headquarters in San Francisco to search the database and respond immediately. The Oracle/RAM combination is a powerful one. RAM operates one of only two national wireless networks. And Oracle has written the software that runs about half the relational databases in the country. Some may ask why we need to access databases from a hammock. But as less hierarchical companies depend ever more on computer networks, they'll also demand more universal and continuous access to employees. Don't look now, but that virtual nightmare known as the virtual office is becoming virtually real. -- R.T.