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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Josef Svejk who wrote (1170)3/12/1998 9:21:00 AM
From: David Eddy  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Josef -

[from the OMB report]
Agencies have identified 7,850 mission-critical systems.

Of those mission-critical systems: 2,716 (35 percent) are now year 2000 compliant; 3,539 (45 percent) are still being repaired; 1,147 (14.6 percent) are still being replaced; and 362 (4.6 percent) will be retired.

Any one see the flaw in this form of reporting?

System #1 could very well be a single spreadsheet & system #7850 could be 50,000,000 lines of Assembler.

Presenting numbers like this is akin to arguing that a $5 trowel is "less expensive" than a $5,000,000 bulldozer. True on the surface (by the context free numbers), but what's the task...? Digging the Panama Canal with $5 trowels would have been a heck of a task.

- David
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