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

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (1038)	2/5/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

David - The world's largest computer company said in its experience customers tended to err on the low side in assessing the scale of remedial measures. ROFLMAO! Oh, how gentle!! Let's look at this another way... just confining our galaxy to 'big' systems (conveniently ignoring embedded chips & the desktop), an ongoing study by Howard Rubin (humoursly labeled his "Black Hole" study) found that less than 20% could articulate the extent of their software portfolio. So if you go into a problem not having a clue how big your problem set is... quite naturally you will egregiously underestimate. Duh! On kick-up-upside-the-head dimension to Y2K is that "inventory" is such a simply word... after all, the high school drop out running the local Seven-Eleven does inventory... so what's the big deal? Well try 'counting' something (software) that doesn't exist in 3 dimensional space... one moment you can have an original, & a few seconds later you can have 50 ever so slightly different 'copies'. So which is the original? Nasty problem. - David