Re: Vendor conflict of interest - Consultants, etc.

I once told a friend about the movie "Tucker", about the
inventor/entrepeneur who introduced aerodynamics and tail
fins and other innovations into car manufacture, crushed by
the Big Three who then turned around and sold their own. The
friend told me he offerred the Army an armored car during
WW-II that was rejected for -- grab your seat -- being "too
fast".

Like Arthur Anderson auditors at one company where I worked
insisting on doing a security audit because somebody noticed
on a job log that the AS/400 security was working. On
special this week-only $30,000 just for you!

Leif's point is well taken. After all, as consultants we
recommend our own continued services, and all vendors are
pushing their products.

- Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Landess" <sjl_123@xxxxxxxxxxx>
|
| It turned out that the Howard Hughes Foundation was the
only
| foundation that qualified to take advantage of it.  I'm
sure that
| some lobbyists were paid very well to get this loophole
written
| into the law!