RE: Pre-Approved database changes

From: Barbara Baker <barbarabbaker_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:43:11 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20040619154311.21650.qmail@web50604.mail.yahoo.com>

It's the great American way.
Big corporate officers get greedy and cheat people. Congress attempts to legislate morality. Out pops Sarbanes-Oxley.

All major sw/hw vendors (at least IBM, Sun, and Microsoft) to the rescue! They're all offering what I like to call "Sox in cellophane" -- a combo hw/sw solution to assure your compliance.

Sadly, our company went with Microsoft. They seem convinced that all the need to do is purchase this over-blown system from MS, put a bunch of crap on it (sql server, enterprise editions of office, whatever that is, and anything else costly), and magically all things Sarbanes-Oxley will float towards this system, to be sucked in like some big vacuum cleaner, and voila! we'll be compliant.

OK, so I'm a pessimist. My coffee cup is half-empty. (And cold, to boot). I see major headaches for IT folks ahead.

And me on my last bottle of Excedin.

Barb

• Michael Fontana <mfontana_at_verio.net> wrote:
  > Not "pretty much every". Just publicly traded
  > companies who wish to
  > comply with SEC regulations on the subject.
  >
  

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