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Technology Stocks : 2000 Date-Change Problem: Scam, Hype, Hoax, Fraud

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To: Risky Business who wrote (268)	10/8/1997 9:46:00 AM
From: David Eddy	of 1361

Risky - The enormity of the Y2K problem comes partly from the fact that MUCH of the source code - a file written by the computer programmers which is needed to alter the way the program works - has gone and many of the programmers are dead. Not true. Not true. Reasonable guesstimates that I've encountered are that in a worst case scenario at some sites, perhaps up to 5% of source code is "lost". The definition of lost does include the fact that there typically are multiple versions of the source module for the (hopefully) single version running in production. Source code on PCs for shrink wrapped products is something else since the end customer typically never gets the original source code. Another factor in this sort of market is that software products will often be bought & sold by companies so that the end-user (who's running v2.0) has no idea who now owns the product (at v8.0). And at the very bottom are folks who had their precocious neighbor write their inventory control system in dBase... now you're in real trouble. David

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