"Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:12:07 -0600, Tom Marchant <m42tom- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > In the old paper-based process there was some statement about > the requirement becoming the property of SHARE once it has been > submitted to SHARE. Hopefully that statement still exists somewhere. >
In the old GUIDE days (when I was a coordinator there) my understanding was that SHARE "owned" the requirement and IBM "owned" the response. (A "fine distinction"). If it hasn't already been posted, here is the summary information from the current SHARE requirement process that I think is relevant: "Welcome to the SHARE Requirements system. Policy 15: SHARE is not meant to be a vehicle whereby providers of information technology strategies, architectures, products or services obtain information about the activities of competitors. Using such information obtained through participation in SHARE Activities is contrary to the purposes of SHARE and is not permitted. Use of this system implies an assertion that you and your Installation have no conflict of interest with the products for which improvements and enhancements are being requested. " This summary (and policy 15 itself) haven't changed in years as far as I know. * * * P.S. This has been along outstanding issue. Back in the days of GUIDE and when I worked for Micro Focus (before and after IBM re-marketed Micro Focus' COBOL as COBOL/2), I was the COBOL project requirement coordinator. This took a LOT of discussion within IBM and GUIDE management. I was then the division requirement coordinator - and finally asked to resign (when new IBM - not GUIDE management got involved). We had COMPUWARE (CA-Optimizer and Abend-AID) members in the project as well. There were then (and still are) rules about "conflict of interest" that are subjective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
