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To: B.K.Myers who wrote (8682)	9/16/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	of 9818

Actually BK, One of the reasons that Joel Willemssen stated for Congressman Horn's B- rating for the Federal government is that he had originally stated a compliancy deadline of March 31st, so that 9 months could be dedicated to end to end testing of all systems and their interfaces. However, since may state based systems are still be remediated, with some having a target for compliancy in the 4th quarter, there won't be much opporunity to test and debug any glitches that may have been inserted. That does not mean the systems will abend... but just that data cannot have the full measure of trust as he expects they should have. He especially is concerned about DOD systems.. So the topic was discussed the other night (sorry you couldn't make it), but it was not necessarily reflective of expected system failure. Another question that was brought referenced how even though mission critical systems might be operational, what would be the cost, in money and reduced efficiency, of not having the non-mission critical systems fully remediated. The answer was not anything I could call concrete, except that no one has incorporated such costs into their equations as to the total Federal outlay for fixing the Y2K issue. Regards, Ron

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