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To: Ian@SI who wrote (5272)	4/10/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: Woody_Nickels	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62569

Subject: Millennia Year Application Software System Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 10:38:03 -0700 From: Craig Jordan With King Willie making unconstitutional decrees upon his subjects I thought a yuk or two to start the day!!! Craig > Subject: Millennia Year Application Software System > This memo is to announce the development of a new software system. > We are currently building a data centre that will contain all company data > that is year 2000 compliant. The program is referred to as the >"Millennia > Year Application Software System" (MYASS). > Next Monday at 9:00 there will be a meeting at which I will show MYASS to > everyone. We will continue to hold demonstrations throughout the month so > that all employees will have an opportunity to get a good look at MYASS. > As for the status of the implementation of the program, I have not > addressed > the networking aspects so currently only one person at a time can use MYASS. > > This restriction will be removed after MYASS expands. Several people are > using the program already and have come to depend on it. > Just this morning I walked into a subordinate's office and was not > surprised > to find that he had his nose buried in MYASS. I've noticed that some of the > less technical personnel are somewhat afraid of MYASS. > Just last week, when asked to enter some information into the program, I > had > a secretary say to me "I'm a little nervous, I've never put anything in > MYASS before". I volunteered to help her through her first time and when we > were through she admitted that it was relatively > painless and she was actually looking forward to doing it again. She went so > far as to say that > after using SAP and Oracle, she was ready to kiss MYASS. > I know there are concerns over the virus that was found in MYASS upon > initial installation, but I am pleased to say the virus has been eliminated > and we were able so save MYASS. In the future, however, protection will be > required prior to entering MYASS. > We planned this database to encompass all information associated with > the > business. So as you begin using the program, feel free to put anything you > want into MYASS. As MYASS grows larger, we envision a time when it will be > commonplace to walk by an office and see a manager hand a paper to an > employee and say "Here, stick this in MYASS". > This program has already demonstrated great benefit to the company > during > recent audits. After requesting certain historical data the auditors were > amazed at how quickly we provided the information. When asked how the > details could be retrieved so rapidly our project manger proudly stated > "Simple, I just pulled them out of MYASS". >