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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (672)12/12/1997 12:07:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Humbly report, David Eddy: "I was talking to a Y2K project manager today at a manufacturing facility. Their BOM (bill-of-materials) system has just gone back into production & is running ok (so far with only a few small hiccups).

He pointed out that early on they determined that this system's "drop dead" date is 1/1/98, since it looks forward into the future a full two years. Also on the other side, they won't be fully out of the woods until 1/1/01 since the system also looks backwards a full year.

Point being: the world doesn't simple STOP on 1/1/00... most big, operational systems have a variety of "critical event windows" that will begin to crop up in increasing intensity & density as we APPROACH 1/1/00.

The really tricky part is that unless you know the interdependancies of your systems & subsystems really well, the main system can be chugging merrily along just fine, but some "small" auxiliary system can be getting spurious results that may not show up until months later... prime example being the story in today's (12/11/97, B1) WSJ on Oxford Health care. [Executives..."weren't getting the statistics and data they needed to make accurate estimates on future liabilities" (sic)]"

For full text please see: Message 2944328

Svejk
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