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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Eddy who wrote (6323)	7/6/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

For those of you wondering about those non-"mission critical" government systems: x25.deja.com[ST_rn=md]/threadmsg_md.xp?thitnum=12&AN=497767638.1&mhitnum=5&CONTEXT=931283784.272302112 Ralph Daugherty <ralph@ee.net> wrote in message news:37813EA6.472B8710@ee.net... > I sincerely hope that we can take this opportunity to eliminate 90% of > Federal government activity, as it has been self reported as non-critical. > Congress has a large responsibility in this, as most government activity has > been created by Congressional requirements. This is the opportunity for > Congress to weigh hard costs against the resurrection of Federal red tape or > to eliminate agencies that have proven themselves incompetent by declaring > required Congressional mandates as non-critical. They will almost be forced into zero-based budgeting will they not? I just wonder what they will do with all those people who have been using those broken applications. As you say, I guess just buy them a bunch of PCs. This matter of non-remediated, non-mission critical software may be why there is such severe constipation in the area of generating BCCPs (Business Continuity and Contingency Plans). They have so far avoided the issue of non-mission critical systems but they may not be able to sidestep that issue when they generate BCCPs. I suppose you know that Business Continuity Preparation is _not in the current $8.3 billion budget. Koskinen is still wating for the BCCPs and what it will cost to implement them. I can see many bureaucrats charged with producing such just holding their heads and saying ... Oh Shit, Oh Shit, Oh Shit. Harlan ------------------------------- BCCPs late to non-existent on mission critical systems and as Harlan points out no BCCP funding budgeted for non-mission critical systems (which are also non-existent?) This will certainly be interesting.