Re: BPCS Documentation

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Al,

In a message dated 4/7/99 3:40:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
MacWheel99@aol.com writes:

> We need to review intellectual property issues related to documentation 
tools 
>  provided to BPCS customers by consultants, presumably built into the price 
>  for their services, and what contractual obligations are imposed on 
customers 
>  not to share with other BPCS customers.  As BPCS versions march forwards, 
>  there is a need for these tools to also get updated, and their 
availability 
>  to not be kept so secret.

IMO, customers can do whatever they want with this data.  What the employees 
of those customers do might be a different matter.  Personally, I'd be a 
little skeptical of a "comprehensive" ERD from _ANYONE_.  My last primary 
client, with an inhumanly overqualified staff BTW, got just over halfway 
through a comprehensive BPCS ERD and gave up because it was becoming 
illegible on their "E" size plotter...

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"The greatest joy in life is doing what others say you cannot do." -- Walter 
Bagehot
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