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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1624)	5/4/1998 2:10:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Sire - Your proffered link eis.bull.com includes: [paste] While all responsible commercial software producers will have produced Year-2000-ready upgrades to their products in good time, you will have to bear the cost for applications that your organizations developed in house. If their documentation is no longer available, it may be difficult to identify whether a problem exists. If the source code has been lost, correcting a problem may require redeveloping the application. Cobol poses a major problem because one of the standard formats for a date field only used two digits to store the year. The older the program, the greater the risk. And many organizations have millions of lines of "legacy" Cobol applications. Obsolete hardware may be physically incapable of handling dates later then 1999. The only solution is to upgrade to a more recent system. This will usually require changing operating system at the same time, and rewriting applications or replacing them by new versions that require extensive modifications. [endpaste] Good to see you're realizing the extent of the problem.