C.S.Y2K 19/1/1998, 20/1/1998
Interesting on C.S.Y2K today:
John
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Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000
From: kiyoinc@ibm.net (cory hamasaki)
Subject: DC Y2K Weather Report (Pee Cee Tests, ALC7, my usual cluelessness)
FAA remarks, other interesting stuff.
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From: 102601.2506@compuserve.com
Subject: Goldman Sachs: Au Revoir!
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 09:34:22 -0600
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Some rumours on Goldman Sachs
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From: Ed Yourdon
Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000
Subject: Re: A dose of y2k reality?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 22:22:31 +0000
'What concerns me about the activities currently going on within the
banking system, various branches of government, and other parts of
the private sector, is that managers and many others are still under the illusion that the "powerful" can prevent the y2k crash by EDICT.
Senior executives can command their programmers to work 24
hours a day, but they don't have the power to overcome Brooks'
Law. One of the latest examples, which floated through various
Internet newsgroups, was Union Pacific's wonderful statement that
"we will DEMAND that our 16,000 suppliers by Y2K compliant!"
Managers can command until they're blue in the face, but they can't
scare all those little Y2K bugs buried in the code, and they can't
control the behavior of 16,000 more-or-less independent suppliers,
some of whom may go bankrupt whether Union Pacific likes it or not.' |
