When one of the most technical names in the industry buys an outside product for its internal use, the supplier must take it as something of a compliment, which means that someone at McCormack & Dodge will be warmed by Scicon Ltd’s recent decision to take an option on all of the US softare house’s financial and associated systems: Scicon plans installation both sides of the Atlantic, starting with the Milton Keynes bureau to support UK operations, spreading to France, Germany and the US; McCormack already numbers Lotus Development, Systems Designers Plc, Ferranti and GEC among its customers.