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Technology Stocks : WHAT IS BEYOND 2000 FOR Y2K COMPANIES
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To: paul e thomas who wrote (7)5/28/1998 7:31:00 AM
From: Steve Woas  Read Replies (1) of 29
 
People who are familiar with IT and Y2K do not predict that Y2K work will end in the year 2000. The majority seem to say Y2K work will be full bore out to 2002 and beyond.

However, the masses don't have a clue and are not likely to get one.. In fact, I think that most people can't believe the Y2K problem is going to be that big of a problem because they only think in PC terms. After all, the PC is their only reference, so it is understandable.

They usually think you can just go and replace a non-compliant program with a shrink-wrapped one. They can't imagine that a enterprise system might have tens of thousands of custom programs with millions and millions of lines of code that probably has taken over 10 years to write. And that the code on a typical mainframe is likely in 7 or 8 different languages and that 12% of the source code is lost.

"We will be working on Y2K well past 2005," says Tompkins. "We aren't worried about keeping our people busy."

year2000.dci.com
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