Year 2000 glitch fuels high-tech feud
"We're projecting 30 percent (of organizations) will have mission-critical system failures," says Matt Hotle, research director at the Gartner Group, a Connecticut consulting firm.
Nonsense, say many corporate and government officials who insist that their year 2000 problems will be fixed well before the witching hour.
"The average person won't have to worry about it all," says Ron Cytron, a computer-science professor at Washington University in St. Louis. "It involves a lot of hard work, but it'll get done."
Will not. Will too. Will not... What in blazes is going on here?
With a mere 768 days to go, one would think the experts would agree on whether the computers that control nearly everything from banking systems to electric power to traffic lights, will function properly on Jan. 1, 2000.
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Leon Kappelman, a computer-systems professor at the University of North Texas and co-chairman of a year 2000 working group of the internation Society of Information Management, talks to people in the trenches and doesn't like what he hears.
"At this point, we have so much work to do we can't possibly get it done," said Kappelman, who periodically surveys the society's membership of 2,700 information-technology managers, academics and consultants to get a sense of what companies and other agencies are actually doing to solve the problem.
From his most recent survey, Kappelman estimates that between 25 percent and 40 percent of the nation's companies and agencies are doing "real work" Between 35 percent and 50 percent aren't doing anything, and the rest are still "planning."
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