Year 2000 Memo

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Subject: Year 2000

This memo announces the development of a major new software
system.

We are currently building a system 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 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, 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 system 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".




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