zdnet.com
Takes a lickin'
SNIP:
>Look-aheads into 2000, which began on January 1, 2000, have
worked within the ability of organizations to deal with errors. Air
reservations and travel safety systems have survived real-world
post-2000 testing. Thousands of government agencies are operating
in Fiscal 2000, calculating benefits and so forth well into the 21st
century. Fabled errors related to Global Positioning Systems and the
Nines Problem have failed to materialize. Errors that do occur are
dealt with, and organizations haven't had to use extreme
contingency measures.
In other words, as of now you can breathe easy, unless you've
ignored your responsibility to check your own company's
systems—and there are plenty of folks who have. Yet they will not
have to deal with power outages, poisoned drinking water, failed
banking systems, or any of the carnival of terrors traipsed across the
pages of Web sites, magazines, newspapers and on the television
news. <
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