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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Healy who wrote (8310)	12/11/1997 6:13:00 PM
From: Hands Off	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

I'll take a crack at answering Mike: You are correct that processing time will increase as a result of the extra 'windowing' logic. There are really 2 issues: Batch and Online. Batch processing - those programs that run without input from users on terminals will, IMHO, be minimally impacted - at least in large mainframe environments and assuming an efficient windowing algorythm. Online processing - where users interact with a program through a terminal - are much more sensitive to extra processing and may be more heavily impacted. In either case, at least at the telephone company where I work, neither seems to be a concerns. If one thought it was a major issue than we should be buying IBM who will profit by selling faster machines to handle the load and more disk drives to store the extra date digits. Marshall

To: Mike Healy who wrote (8310)	12/12/1997 12:56:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Mike, got this from a friend who has done extensive Y2K programming: Windowing can cause some time problems, but if new processing is kept minimal, it should be negligible. The alternatives are encoding (which causes a lot more overhead) or expansion (more expensive, takes longer to do, more error-prone, needs more DASD, has to have bridging, etc.). Given a cheap solution which causes some processing overhead or a much more expensive one that has severe drawbacks, which one do you think companies will choose? ===== - Jeff