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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: flatsville who wrote (4354)3/8/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Christine Traut  Read Replies (2) of 9818
 
Don't know the specifics about the Panama Canal comment. But it may be an example of what I am calling the "stand down" phenomenon. In many cases, it may be safer to shut down things like the Canal (or chemical plants, or prisons) and then bring them up slowly once we are in the year 2000.

It is just impossible to completely test a computer system without doing it in real life. To let critical systems roll over to the New Year may just be too much of a risk. So we may see an awful lot of things shut down in late December. And then brought back up. Slowly. Slowly. Can you hear that global economy slowing down?
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