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

To: Jim who wrote (9072)	11/2/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Jim: Fair enough. I did not mean to create a 'to-do' list for anyone. I agree that any patching of software entails risk. No one should take my post as a guideline for their own remediation. That said, I am not willing to accept anyone's reassurance that PCs 'will work' - even with a money back guarantee. But I appreciate the offer. I have two decades of IT experience and some idea of what is involved in testing all of the possible ways in which dates can affect processing. Just because the computer 'looks like it is working' does not mean that it is working correctly. I take the position that the software and applications that I am running on my PC ought to be Y2K compliant. And that the vendors of said software should be responsible for helping me do that. It's a quality control issue. I have no problem with your advising people to fix on failure. But I don't think that most of the computing public is able to analyze what may go wrong, read the detailed technical information in version notes, and decide whether or not to apply a patch. Hey, let's all go out and buy an iMac! Christine