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

To: Clayleas who wrote (849)	1/8/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk	Respond to of 9818

Humbly report, Clayleas, I am a bit surprised you posted information regarding a SPECIFIC STOCK BY NAME on this thread! May I remind you that this thread is NOT for stock discussion? If we allowed specific stock discussion here . . . next thing you know, Tastes Like Chicken'd be here hyping IMRS! Thank GOD I had nothing to do with this violation on your part, and I have a witness to prove it: Message 3120355 Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ;-) P.S. Kidding! Really Cheryl, I'm just kidding! Really!!! ;-)

To: Clayleas who wrote (849)	1/8/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

re: "closest thing to a silver bullet" hype Peter de Jager has an excellent article on this subject... year2000.com Summary excerpts below: His questions for silver bullet solutions are: 1.Screen Challenge -- user input 2.Reports Challenge -- hardcopy output 3.Training and Forms Challenge -- changes in business process require education to change long established work habits. 4.The Human Input Challenge -- There is a mistaken belief that we know HOW people are using our systems. 5.The Hardware Challenge -- will it function? 6.The Human Ambiguity Challenge -- will people know what 02-01-03 means? 7.Windowing and Context Challenge -- Does the system know what 01/13/24 represents? What will your Silver Bullet.. automatically... without human intervention... It could be 01/13/1824... the date a parcel of land was purchased. It could be 01/13/1924... Someone's birth date. It could also be 01/13/2024... the end date of a 30 year mortgage. 8.Expansion and Space Challenge -- Will your Silver Bullet expand all 2 digit fields to 4 9.Deciding between Expansion and Windowing -- it will have to take business processes into consideration. 10.Logic and Understanding Challenge --Will the Silver Bullet understand every similar section of code? 11.The Language Challenge -- Remember those those unique and curious in-house languages. 12.The Existing Error Challenge -- When implementing your Year 2000 solution do you fix 'problems?' 13.The Code Challenge -- Actually changing the code. Can a Silver Bullet do it? Always and with 100% accuracy? 14.The Triage & Project management Challenge -- you must still dimplementation of the changed systems as not to impact the existing production schedule 15.The Intermittent Date Challenge -- A problem with date identification is that a field-name that contains a date in one program might NOT contain a date in another program. 16.The Data Transfer Challenge -- how will your Silver Bullet automatically communicate the date format changes made in either outgoing or incoming data from other companies? 17.The Logic Switch Challenge -- special year 99 codes. 18.The Testing Challenge -- Someone who suggests that changed code need not be tested, is an idiot.