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To: Tom C who wrote (2296)	5/9/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk	Respond to of 3795

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To: Tom C who wrote (2296)	5/9/1999 7:54:00 AM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 3795

Yea - explain to me why JDE won't give us the source code for some of their programs that we paid some very high $$ for and, according to our contact, should have received? Sure - we've got the object code but you can't recompile that for the new IBM AS/400E that will now be running NT as opposed to OS/2. Last letter I saw showed an asking price of about $3M but they'd graciously offered us a 50% discount. We even offered to fly out there, recompile the source code and leave with just the object code but they didn't seem to be receptive to that idea. Yea - like we're really going to steal the source code, we just need to make a simple conversion of a few files in order to operate certain functions of the business. For that kind of money I'll bet Bill himself would come down and switch us over to something different.