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To: Mr Logic who wrote (1121)2/23/1998 12:14:00 PM
From: ThirdEye  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1518
 
<<Wouldn't the reverse would be true? One of the significant reasons for the high cost of the y2k fix is
that many companies are taking the opportunity to migrate from old systems sooner rather than later,
replacing them with new, y2k compliant applications. >>

Nope. Maybe that's true elsewhere(I doubt it), but not in the case of the DEC base. Why? Because, as has been stated previously on this thread, there are 7K DEC applications and only 1200 NT applications. Why leave behind the stuff you use and know for a new, unknown application that doesn't fit your needs? First get your software(and your database) compliant, then migrate, bringing everything you had before with you.



To: Mr Logic who wrote (1121)2/23/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Andrew Abrams  Respond to of 1518
 
We've talked to lots of people who are fixing, because they have to keep their business running, but will migrate to open platforms when the pressure is off in 2000.

The reason that people are replacing rather than fixing currently is because they can capitalize the cost rather than expense it, but the time to implament a change is rapidly ending, especially if it is on an enterprise-wide level.

AA