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

To: Jeff Redman who wrote (6550)	7/14/1999 8:30:00 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Respond to of 9818

<<I, on the other hand, have been working in a Y2K lab with others testing applications on a mainframe and client/server and have been testing EFT, EDI, etc. with banks and vendors that we do business with and have been having a lot of success with the integration testing. >> Admittedly, the computer environment where I work would not cause major chaos immediately if they were not Y2K compliant, but would severely degrade a large company's oil and gas exploration effort. However, there have already been tests going back to last year where some computers' clocks have been set forward to Y2K for weeks at a time and everything worked just fine. I used to work for an electric utility company and they have been doing Y2K preparation for a long time. Also, they will have people working at midnight on Dec 31st this year just in case of any problems, so they can manually override the computer systems. I'm sure there will be some unexpected problems next year, but I don't believe all these conspiracy theories of a mass cover up. Even so, I will be storing fresh water,food, and have an alternative energy source just in case. Luckily, I live in a warm climate, so could survive without heating in my house during January and February. Without A/C, the summer would be tough, but I believe any remaining Y2K bugs will easily be fixed by then. Call me Polyanna if you want, I call me realistic.

To: Jeff Redman who wrote (6550)	7/15/1999 3:37:00 AM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

<have read a number of your posts and you are so far out there in LA LA land that you must be related to Gary North.> ...What if I told you I am Gary, posting under an alias?? I, on the other hand, have been working in a Y2K lab with others testing applications on a mainframe and client/server and have been testing EFT, EDI, etc. with banks and vendors that we do business with and have been having a lot of success with the integration testing. ...Good show, as it goes! But, let's discuss embedded systems, which will be the crippler, not software codes!!! BTW, will you please quantify "a lot of success"? Compliant, ready, or 'we hope'? full integrated testing, or beta or what? What about S.W.I.F.T? Do you guarantee no cascading cross-faults? How will you protect against re-corruption? By the way, Computerworld is still a far more reliable source than the ones you have been using. ..Oh? Did you check the source articles?