Re: Disgruntled employee of major software vendor

Lets hope they cut off his profiles on the system before
any damage. I had a customer's disgruntled employee's
last act was to call the SPA (software publishers assoc)
and turn them in for using multiple copies of a single license.
Cost them 6 figures...
jim

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From: <rob@dekko.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: Disgruntled employee of major software vendor


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> We had a major iSeries software vendor scheduled to speak at our users
> group.  He called a week or two before the meeting and cancelled.  Said
> that the vendor was getting out of the iSeries market.
>
> We were shocked.  This tool vendor has been in the iSeries market for
> quite a long time.
>
> Today I got a spam mail from the company pushing their tools - and how
> they are going to make the iSeries better.  I replied back, how, and
> relayed the story.  I quickly got a phone call saying that person no
> longer works there, quit, and evidently decided to go out in a blaze of
> glory by defaming the company.  They offered to send a speaker at any
> meeting we had open.
>
> I had almost posted this on this list prior to this clarification.
>
> Just posting this in case you've had contact with this person and have
> heard that a major tool vendor is leaving the iSeries.  Double check your
> sources.
>
> Rob Berendt
> --
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
> Benjamin Franklin
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