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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Steve Woas who wrote (1903)5/25/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: scott ross  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
Paul, not to try to dissuade you from your views, but a couple of points to consider:

o The United States survived the CIVIL WAR without a breakdown in the structure of state and local government.

o As few as thirty years ago, major utilities were operational without ANY digital computing devices whatsoever.

o You describe the Gartner Group's accuracy on LOC & remediation costs but then mention their estimates for embedded devices. Having worked on many embedded systems, I have seen VERY FEW that CHECK THE DATE. That is: most embedded systems do not use a date at all. A small fraction of these systems DO use a date. Of these, a small fraction ever read the date for purposes other than display. That is not to say there won't be some critical failures in these devices. There will be. But, for the most part, embedded systems and Y2K issues are hype. These systems need to READ THE DATE FOR PURPOSES OF CALCULATION. If they do not do do so, they will not fail.

Cheers.
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