After system conversion, CU finds its instant messaging capabilities were just too convenient to give up

HOUSTON - Staffers at First Community Credit Union here were a little more addicted to instant messaging each other than they realized. The $250 million CU had been using instant messaging on its internal network for years on a Novell system. When it converted to a Windows NT system that...

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