Re: SSA Wants to Audit Our System (?)

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unless you paid for rights to continue modifying/using their code, you're in
trouble.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: SSA Wants to Audit Our System (?)


> My boss just came over and said that someone from SSA wants to come in an
> audit our system. The software we are using started out as BPCS about ten
> years ago (or more), but since then it has been  heavily modified
> in-house, to the point where pretty much the only similarity is that both
> systems manage transactions that record the process of making "products"
> and selling them to "customers". When I got here (1998), I heard that we
> had terminated out relationship with SSA years before, and since I've been
> here we haven't ever heard from them that I know of.
>
> Is this happening to anyone else? Any theories about what's going on? We
> have all kinds of theories here, from the benign to the other extreme. . .
> .
>
> Mike Naughton
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Judd Wire, Inc.
> 124 Turnpike Road
> Turners Falls, MA  01376
> 413-863-4357 x444
> mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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