RE: "Millennia Year Application Software System"




This memo is to announce the development of a new firm-wide software
system.  We are currently building a data center that will contain
all firm 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 in 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, since 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 to 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 OSHA and EPA audits.  After requesting certain
historical data the agency representatives were amazed at how quickly
we provided the information.  When asked how the numbers could be
retrieved so rapidly our Environmental Manager proudly stated
"Simple, I just pulled them out of MYASS".