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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (630)	4/26/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 1361

Bill, The inherent weakness of your argument lies in the fact that, using your examples, failures occur sporatically and in isolated areas wherein fallback systems are usually in place for implementing work-arounds. However, come 2000, all systems lacking proper remediation are vulnerable to corruption or abendment. The work-arounds will also be vulnerable, whether they be electronic or physical since in every instance our economic systems will be impacted by 00 or 9/1999. In isolated cases your logic would be quite correct. However, when EVERYONE is facing the same fast approaching immovable deadline, your arguments dissipate like so much noxious vapor on the wind. There are no "isolated" cases on Dec 31st, 1999. Regards, Ron

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (630)	4/26/1998 11:05:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

Bill - There is nothing magical about the Y2K "problem" except that it has captured the popular imagination due to its tie-in with the new millenium. Yes & no. The "magical" (bizare choice of words) is: (1) it's a 'fixed' deadline (not just confined to 1/1/00), (2) it happens pretty much simultaneously to everyone, and (3) demand on scarce resources occurs in a very narrow timeframe. I won't touch the other part of the millennial stew... I'll leave that to Gary North & Co. & the folks who really like to tilt at windmills. The primary difficulty with Y2K is that software maintenance is a dirty word. Somehow we've been able to continually delude ourselves that 'this time' we'll re-write that application correctly because we've finally found the holy grail of magic tools... CASE, Visual Basic, Java, Object Oriented databases, pick your pipedream... BTW... you never did counter with what personal software development/management experience you have that proves that Capers Jones is a loony... - David