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Talk about role reversal. Back in the early 1980s, Bill Snell was the president and chief operating officer of Joseph & Cogan Associates Inc. and one of his workers was Mark Mathias, a self-described computer junkie.
Now, Mathias is president of CD Eureka Inc. in Studio City and his only full-time worker is Snell.
Both men, through CD Eureka, are making their livings trying to put an end to the corporate paper chase by sticking information onto computers rather than mounds of paper--paper that is used for financial reports, contracts, inventory statements, research, invoices and the like.
Like many of the new computer technologists, Mathias, 36, and Snell, 52, think small. The two operate CD Eureka out of a cramped three-room suite in a three-story office building that looks more like an apartment house.
"Today is an age when it doesn't matter so much how many employees you have. Today it's not that important in measuring the success or size of a company," said Snell. "It's more important to look at the revenues and profits than the number of people it has."
In the parlance of computer talk, what CD Eureka does is information storage and retrieval. What that means is CD...