<div><div>+1 Ahmed</div></div><div><br></div><div>The worst position you can find yourself in is being held a hostage by a vendor.</div><div><br></div><div>Such risks should be noted pretty earlier and nipped in the bud.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 3:16 PM Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I think this issue needs a proper investigation before we jump into conclusions.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>I find it rather surprising that there was no exit strategy option visible - which hints to a high degree of vendor lockin without a termination roadmap (for a Bank that manages a huge chunk of our country's financial sector). <br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">I think before we jump into conclusions there are many moving parts that need to be looked at, such as how it was possible to have to be held hostage by a single vendor in the process for a very important bank in the banking sector (which also happens to handle other banks in receivership).<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Ronald Ojino via kictanet <span class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg">Interesting hmmm...however, it would be of great importance to know the basis of the ruling...was it informed by any local act..which specific clause?</div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-8545974998954178261h5 gmail_msg">On 30-Mar-2017 10:10 PM, "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class="gmail_msg"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_-8545974998954178261h5 gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">
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