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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (460)11/17/1997 7:15:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
Computerworld author admits embarrasment over SSA article.

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Yet another gem, excerpt:

What's ironic about this - and so scary about the year 2000 problem - is that the agency for years has been an icon of year 2000 preparedness. [...] While other agencies either wrung their hands or just sat on them, the SSA fixed millions of lines of code.

The SSA held year 2000 seminars for other federal agencies, and its IS managers gave speeches on how to survive in a post-1999 world. Whenever the year 2000 came up in public forums, such as congressional hearings, invariably someone would say of the Defense Department or the IRS, "Why can't they be more like Social Security?"<P>

But now the General Accounting Office (GAO) reports that 54 state disability systems were excluded from the SSA's year 2000 work.

The SSA had limited its work to its central systems, which include 24,000 software "modules" and 34 million lines of code. [...]

The GAO also revealed that the SSA has no contingency plans in case its systems aren't fixed on time. The SSA said it hadn't developed them because it felt its early start on the year 2000 problem would make those plans unnecessary. Who needs contingency plans if you're planning on having no contingencies?
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