5 Feb
2007
5 Feb
'07
11:40 a.m.
On 5 Feb 2007 at 11:10, Al Kossow wrote:
When it comes to business records, it's often to the firm's advantage
to strictly observe the "statute of limitations" rule and shred
everything after 7 years. Records older than 7 years can be
subpoenaed to demonstrate a pattern of behavior. Best not to have
the old stuff around.
Weyehauser runs a successful mobile operation here, where a large
tractor-trailer rig is a "we shred at your place of business"
operation. Yesterday's evidence becomes tomorrow's grocery bags.
Cheers,
Chuck
What do
government and corporate data archives do?
Surely a long-lived company like IBM has already
had to deal with this
problem?
They deal with the problem by throwing things away. There are essentially
no corporate archives of software older than a few decades. This goes back
to the discussions here a while back about companies discarding software
after a product's life ends.