Hi Sonny: I tend to agree with your comments as far as replacing Bubba. You know the old expression, the one you know is better than the one you don't and if the reps bring him down, it could come back to haunt them in any number of ways. They might just get what they deserve. In any case, I thought he made an outstanding presentation under the circumstances and the true test of a leader is one who doesn't break under the strain and it doesn't get much worse than being caught in the glare of the headlights!
Thought you might be interested in this: I have another news story about some old boy computer scientist type from Texas who had a hand in inventing cobalt (ancient programming language that 2000 prob cptrs run on, has also invented a relatively simple solution as well.
Necessity is the mother of invention and Y2K problem will spawn many.
A self-help fix for Year 2000
bug
By Reuters
January 27, 1998, 5:20 a.m. PT
CANBERRA--A small Australian computer
software company said today that it had developed
an easy, cheap, do-it-yourself solution to the
millennium bug problem.
Inforsoft, a six-month-old company based in the
Australian capital of Canberra, said the Info 2000
program was designed for the corporate sector and
was available for about one-third of the cost of
alternatives.
Many companies now use consultants to fix the
millennium bug or chose the time-consuming
process of going through programs themselves.
Info 2000 would cost about $107,200 compared
to the $335,000 cost of using a consultant to install
a similar program, Inforsoft managing director
Arnold Cummins said.
"With this, it really strikes the right sort of middle
way, so that it's neither labor intensive at the
organization nor cost intensive in terms of having an
outsider do it for you," Cummins told Reuters.
The package is aimed at fixing the programming
flaw in which some computers, recognizing years by
only the last two digits, mistakenly read the year
2000 as the year 1900.
The error, known as the millennium or Year 2000
bug, could make computers malfunction or shut
down and has led to fears of electronic chaos at the
start of 2000.
Cummins said Inforsoft had formed a partnership
with U.S. computer company CompuWare
(CPWR) to further the development and marketing
of its program worldwide.
He said the potential sales value of products in the
corporate market was well over $33 million and the
Info 2000 program was expected to win a
significant share of this.
"I don't think that we would be the first ever to
come up with this particular approach, but I do
think that in the field we're talking about, with the
corporate systems we're talking about, I do think
it's pretty unique," Cummins said.
He said the company would particularly
concentrate on marketing the program in the United
Kingdom and Asia.
"We've done our market research and there are
one or two things around overseas that may be in
the same area, but they don't appear to have done
very much."
The program could also be used to find other
programming errors and change them. For
example, it could be used to update programs if the
United Kingdom changes its currency to the
European currency.
"Any changes that would be implied by that, you
can use that same package to make those changes
as well," he said. "You can set out the rules and let
it work accordingly."
Story Copyright c 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights
reserved.
btw ADIC acted pretty well today. PBI might be stuck in netral for a while, if it can't take out 46.
Best rgds
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