Software maker slapped with Y2K lawsuit

["Baldauf, Dan" <DBaldauf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a Computerworld article I found on the internet.  Has anyone
heard of Y2K lawsuits against SSA?


Software maker slapped with Y2K lawsuit
Tom Diederich
http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?vc=docid_9-51575.html


A law firm representing a company in Southbury, Conn., filed a
class-action lawsuit today in an Ohio court against Macola, Inc.,
accusing the software maker of breach of warranty and fraud in
connection with its Progression Series software and the millennium bug. 

According to a statement from Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP
in New York, "the defects concern the inability of the Progression
Series software, prior to Versions 6.2000 and 7.0, which were recently
introduced, to recognize and process dates starting in the year 2000."
Attorney Salvatore J. Graziano said his firm filed the lawsuit this
morning in the Marion County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of his
client, Paragon Network. A spokesman for Macola, in Marion, Ohio,
wouldn't comment on the lawsuit. 

Graziano said he will seek at least $5,000 -- the amount he said it will
cost to buy upgrades for most firms -- for each Macola user who
purchased versions of the Procession Series software prior to 6.2000 and
7.0. 

Graziano said that while other software companies were offering free
corrections or patches that would alleviate the year 2000 problem,
Macola "is improperly requiring its customers to pay substantial fees to
purchase upgrades in order to remedy the year 2000 defect contained in
the Macola Progression Series software." Macola sells software for
manufacturing, accounting and client/server distribution chores. 

"Macola should not be profiting from the year 2000 problem," Graziano
said. Asked whether the lawsuit would be dropped if the company offered
a "free fix," he said, "That's part of the remedy we're seeking."




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