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Author Re: System security
Nelson Kaye

2006-12-24, 6:55 pm

Bruce,

Thanks for the your additional incite. I will review the alternatives, and
see where it leads..

Nelson

"Bruce Johnson (CapeSoft)" <bruceNOSPAM@capesoft.com> wrote in message
news:A921.1166961927.6494@discuss.softvelocity.com...
> Hi Nelson,
>
> It's hard to say for sure if 2 systems can be integrated without giving it

a
> try.
>
> I will say this though - integrating "existing" security with "new"

security
> is ver hard. Usually you either end up with something that is not secure,

or
> a complete bastard of a system to maintain in the long run.
> The pain you have to live with will far exceed the "joy" they have at not
> having to re-enter their security settings.
>
> Can you get the same _functionality_ as before? That's hard to answer.
> Probably yes (in the sense that Secwin covers a lot of ground) but there's
> no way to know for sure.
>
> You might want to investgate how badly the client wants this. All to often
> they have no idea how hard (read expensive) a particular request is. If

you
> put a number on it then you get an idea. For example I used to charge

about
> $100 for new reports for 1 app of ours. And I was amazed at how many times
> the client would say "nah, don't bother". If it's not worth $100 to him,
> then it's _definitly_ not me worth spending time on. But as long as I did
> them for free, there was no shortage of suggestions.
>
> Cheers
> Bruce
>
> "Nelson Kaye" <nkaye1@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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