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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1237)3/21/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
HOW ONE COMPANY IS EXTERMINATING THE MILLENNIUM BUG

On the scene with a medical insurer's SWAT team

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''The job is
orders of magnitude bigger than expected,'' Libens admits. ''We're
scrambling.''

Some
suppliers had never gone back and tested their products for Y2K
compliance. Many of the smaller companies were no longer in
business.

Wherever two-digit dates must be replaced with four-digit ones, Mutual
ships the whole software cluster out to Costa Mesa with explicit
directions on what needs to be fixed. While under repair, that portion of
the company enters a state called ''freeze.''

And woe to the employee who absentmindedly
shuttles a dirty file into the clean library. ''It's a danger that we
face--making sure that what gets renovated stays renovated,'' says
Sidon.'

________________________________

Some lessons learned: very important are (among other issues):

- version management
- vendor management
- project management, program management

John

businessweek.com
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