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Subject:Re: Business names From:"Westra, Kayla L." <13718westr -at- KCPBLDG01 -dot- BV -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 15 Aug 1994 14:01:00 CDT
Ditto--Only it was Project Management Systems
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From: TECHWR-L
To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
Subject: Business names
Date: Monday, August 15, 1994 1:21PM
> I convinced a team not to use PAP for a productivity project, then,
because
> no one was using PAP for anything else, management grabbed it.
Okay, I can't stand it... have to tell this story: I once worked for
company
called Informatics General
Corporation, who sold my division to another firm named Policy Management
Systems (PMS). Boy,
did our customers have fun with that! One of my clients sent me a coffee
cup
that said "Don't bother
me, I've got PMS!"
One of the software packages for PMS was AIDS -- I can't remember what that
stood for, but the
package was older than the acronym for the disease...
