IRS
'On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:38:19, fedinfo@halifax.com wrote:
... bad stuff about Chuckie Rossotti ...
> Paul Milne
Paul,
It is my opinion based upon my 29 years w/ large scale S/360-370-390 systems,
my academic background, rumors circulating in the DC area superprogrammer
grapevine, and off-the-record conversations with 5 programmers who have
worked on IRS systems, that the task of the IRS's geeks is impossible. One of
the 5 is very likely in the top .1 percent of S/390 assembly language
programmers in the world.
But that is my opinion based on rumor and whispers.
Mr. Rossotti may have better information, he should, he's the IRS's
commissioner.
Consider the actions that he has personally taken in the last few months. He
fired Gross. He arranged a 10% bonus for the programmers. He is negotiating
with congress for resources, training, manpower, and relief from tax code
changes so that he can focus on Y2K.
Can he pull it off? I don't think so. Would I bet a hundred bucks that they
fail? Sure... but there's no guarentee. If anyone can pull this off,
Chuckie is the man. Chuckie is not a pointy hair.
Anything can happen, we have 637 days left.
cory hamasaki
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Subject:
Re: IRS: Rossotti Clueless?
Date:
3 Apr 98 23:59:26 GMT
From:
kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net (cory hamasaki)
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