Hi Stanley:
I am new to this thread in the last few weeks. I work for AA in there systems operations control division. The article was taken from the Oct 21, 1996 edition of the "Flagship News". This is American Airlines newspaper. The title of the article is "Company's Right on Track Solving Year 2000 Problem".
DocStone was 100 percent correct with all the quotes from the article. The article does estimate that it will cost AMR 100 million dollars to fix the problem. It also references a Wall Street Journal column recognizing AMR's efforts to modify its own systems in a timely manner and to assure that those of other firms won't compromise its operations. As stated in the article, "The goal is to have all changes made by Jan 1, 1999 and we are right on track".
What strikes me is that AMR, which is a very looking company, if I do say so myself, doesn't expect to be finished by Jan 1, 1999, and has been already working on this problem for some time, where does that leave other companies who haven't started addressing the problem?
Just a thought. If Zitel/Matridigm does have a much faster cheaper way to correct this problem, wouldn't companies that are behind on addressing the problem look to them for help? Who knows. Maybe even AA will take a look at them if they find the Z/MD solution to better, faster and cheaper. As I said, I work in the systems operations control division. I have zero to do with AA/AMR and the "year 2000 problem" and am not in anyway saying AMR is going to use or even thinking of using Z/MD for this problem. That is up to folks in higher places than me. We will just have to wait. Take care and good luck.
Craig
P.S. Docstone: Nice to see people do read the "American Way" on American's flights. Fly AA! |
