Today's Wall Street Journal has a front page article on the growth of the fraud software market in light of SOX and other laws. If you are a records manager in the corporate sector (or even if you aren't) I'd suggest you read. One quote (among others) that caught my eye "Storage companies like EMC stress the need to save audit-related materials for seven years." The link to the online version is: http://online.wsj.com/page/0_0809.html?page=0_0809 <http://online.wsj.com/page/0_0809.html?page=0_0809> By the way, if you don't have the online subscription you should check it out. For $9.95 a month (or $4.95 if you also subscribe to the print version) I consider it a bargain. Bruce L. White, CRM, PMP List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance