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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (1042)	2/6/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

NY Times FAA article excerpt from comp.software.year-2000 From: shandalia@earthlink.net Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 Subject: Re: Y2K on NPR -- FAA's Problems Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 16:08:42 -0800 [...] Hmmmmm...seems other FAA wonks don't agree..... search.nytimes.com New York Times today....... February 5, 1998 F.A.A. Head Concedes Computer Problem [W] ASHINGTON -- The head of the Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged in testimony before Congress on Wednesday that the state of her agency's preparations for the year-2000 computer problem was "unacceptable," and she said she could not guarantee that the problems would be solved in time. Instead, the FAA is beginning to make ------------------ contingency plans for what to do if Related Article its computers begin failing, said the Many FAA administrator, Jane Garvey. Computers Still Headed for Crash "The FAA is not as far along as it in 2000 should be," Ms. Garvey testified. In (February 4, response to questions by reporters 1998) afterward, she said, "Can I give you ------------------ an absolute, ironclad guarantee that we'll be ready? That probably would not be prudent." The FAA has a schedule for finishing its work by November 1999, but as even insiders admit, its track record for keeping to schedule on big software projects is poor; some of the projects have gotten so bogged down and so far behind that they have been abandoned. For the year-2000 problem, known in the industry as Y2K, the White House goal for the whole federal government was to complete an assessment of every computer system by the middle of last year. But the FAA reached that point only Tuesday night, Ms. Garvey said, and only for the air traffic control computers. Many computers register the date as a two-digit number, and after 1999, which they record as 99, they will flip to 00, which they will recognize as 1900. The FAA has already found and fixed several Y2K bugs that would have caused computers to fail after the turn of the century. A classic case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing! <snork> Shandi