> Transamerica is getting worse service because the contractor that they prefer wanted to look at documentation for a system they payed for. This is why enterprise IT is a legally mandated mess.
No, I don't believe that's at all what was happening. I really recommend reading the original compliant[1]. TCS was leveraging their employees with access to CSC's documentation and source code to glean information about how a particular feature was implemented, _not_ for supporting Transamerica, but for reimplementing the feature in their own product.
From paragraph 29 of the compliant:
> A TCS employee, who upon information and belief is part of the U.S. BaNCS development team, wrote in an email: “Quite honestly, I’m not sure how VTG [Vantage] does this today, so maybe we should engage [TCS employees with access to the Vantage source code] if we want to emulate that?”
The complaint goes on to describe the engineers sending the actual source code to the team. This is pretty clear cut theft IMO.
1: https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/11/22/csc_complaint.pdf
No, I don't believe that's at all what was happening. I really recommend reading the original compliant[1]. TCS was leveraging their employees with access to CSC's documentation and source code to glean information about how a particular feature was implemented, _not_ for supporting Transamerica, but for reimplementing the feature in their own product.
From paragraph 29 of the compliant:
> A TCS employee, who upon information and belief is part of the U.S. BaNCS development team, wrote in an email: “Quite honestly, I’m not sure how VTG [Vantage] does this today, so maybe we should engage [TCS employees with access to the Vantage source code] if we want to emulate that?”
The complaint goes on to describe the engineers sending the actual source code to the team. This is pretty clear cut theft IMO.
1: https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/11/22/csc_complaint.pdf