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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (463)	11/17/1997 7:24:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

SOCIAL SECURITY. How do you spell that? ... S E C U R I T Y ??? Just in case someone didn't read the previous post ... READ THIS! Whenever the year 2000 came up in public forums, such as congressional hearings, invariably someone would say of the Defense Department or the IRS, "Why can't they be more like Social Security?" But now the General Accounting Office (GAO) reports that 54 state disability systems were excluded from the SSA's year 2000 work. The SSA had limited its work to its central systems, which include 24,000 software "modules" and 34 million lines of code. [...] The GAO also revealed that the SSA has no contingency plans in case its systems aren't fixed on time. The SSA said it hadn't developed them because it felt its early start on the year 2000 problem would make those plans unnecessary. Who needs contingency plans if you're planning on having no contingencies? ================================================================== BILL: What grade did SSA get on Y2K effort before ... A-/B+ ... Ooooooh ... Wonder what happens to their grade now???? Gee ... what's gonna happen to those other 5 Departments who already have D's & F's?