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To: John Koligman who wrote (54813)4/29/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Jules B. Garfunkel  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
John,
I have always thought that IBM could face a potential legal liability because of Y2K problems. After all, their Programers/Systems Reps instructed, wrote and installed many of the programs and application packages that contain the two digit date programming error. The way things have been going lately for Intel, and in today's government vs. corporate environment, if INTC were IBM, the government would be probably be going after them in an attempt to recover damages.
Any thoughts?
Jules



To: John Koligman who wrote (54813)4/30/1998 8:27:00 AM
From: Francis Chow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
<Just fixing Y2K legacy code at higher levels (Cobol as an example) for customers must be a nightmare.>

There's a company in my town full of Ph.D.s who have a system for
automatically detecting and fixing Y2K bugs. Their main
problem is not in finding where the bugs are, nor how to fix
them. Their main problem is that the old compilers no longer
exist, so they cannot regenerate the fixed executable code.


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