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To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (11853)	2/22/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: Joe Bilich	Respond to of 31646

I think his statement is telling ... "(the factory floor is where ) we may get hit the hardest. Some of the machines may have (problems)...". This is indicative of the degree to which recognition of the size of the embedded code problem has generally lagged that for office/business systems. There is a lot of recognition on the part of financial services companies, etc., that their product IS, to a very great degree, information. However, manufacturers generally think of themselves as "making stuff", and don't view information as an end product. For them, information is much more a means than an end.

To: ForYourEyesOnly who wrote (11853)	2/22/1998 6:50:00 PM
From: Alec Epting	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

I don't understand why companies don't just buy the TAVA CD. To get started it will only cost them $5k, another $3k access the database, and $200 per report. This is peanuts compared to the salary of even 1 engineer. Their reluctance is probably because they don't know about it yet. Once word gets out, I can't imagine companies passing up the offer. Seems relativity cheap to me considering the time it would save.