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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion

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To: Jeff Redman who wrote (6266)	9/15/1997 11:31:00 PM
From: David Eddy	of 13949

Jeff, all new projects since the late 80's have been using DB2 with a date format of mm/dd/yyyy, our client/server data bases are Sybase. We looked at all our data base tables for 2 digit years, then temp & perm sequential files. Around 86 we changed our date subroutine to add a 4 digit year option. Many of our programs call this common module so the fix is in one place and we go into the programs that call this subroutine and change the arguments. Ok, so you've (1) got a 10 year headstart and (2) use a common subroutine. No wonder you're ahead of the game. The Y2K project manager from BankBoston (bless his soul for sticking his neck out publically) said in a public presentation that they found over 40 (maybe it was 60) "standard" date routines. This is the sort of chaos that I firmly believe is typical of a 'normal' Fortune 1000 site. Your management is to be soundly congratulated for the soundness of its practices. I'd assume they're a shoe-in for an SEI-CMM Level 3? David

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