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

To: jwk who wrote (1349)	3/29/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Capers Jones in Datamation: 'Year 2000: What's the real cost? (Datamation March 1997) 'U.S. organizations will spend $71 billion to make their applications Year 2000 compliant. And that figure doesn't include database repairs, hardware upgrades, or fixes to test libraries. What will the total bill for your IS shop be? By Capers Jones The following is an excerpt from "The Global Economic Impact of the Year 2000 Software Problem," a recently released report from Software Productivity Research of Burlington, Mass. 'Perhaps the most dangerous fallacy has been assertions in the press that the issue will be resolved primarily by scrapping aging legacy applications containing Y2K problems and developing applications that are Year 2000 compliant 'In other words, none of the major software applications can be replaced between now and the end of the century. You have to fix the Year 2000 problem in your current applications. 'A surprising aspect of the Year 2000 problem is that the companies that solve it are going to end up knowing much more about their software than ever before. Even better, their software will be in much more stable and reliable condition than it is right now. datamation.com