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Technology Stocks : CSGI ...READY FOR TAKE-OFF! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David Eddy who wrote (1763)	12/28/1997 10:24:00 PM
From: tech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3391

David, okay changing the code is the smallest single step, but how much of the budget will be spent on this small step ? you don't seem to understand what I am saying. Let us say that you have a budget of $5 million to spend on fixing you year 2000 problem and you have to perform the following phases. - planning (this includes inventory, assessment, impact, etc.) - fixing/coding <-- where CSGI fits - unit test - system test. How much of you budget will be spent on these different phases ? Regardless of which phase takes the longest, isn't it equally important which phase or phases will cost the most to complete ? I can already tell you that there is no way that assessment phase will cost more than the correction phase. I would also think that the conversion of the code would take up more of the budget than some of the initial testing would. Even if the conversion phase was only 2% of the problem, it still would be significant if 30% of the budget had to be spent on that phase. I think you are looking at the time issues alone without even considering the expense side of the equation. As investors we should also focus on the expense side of the issue, not just what phase takes the most time, but what phase or phases will cost the most complete.