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To: Jay Maitland who wrote (15892)	5/4/1998 8:43:00 AM
From: Brian Malloy	Respond to of 31646

To all, reference the nice little counterpoint Y2K article by the WSJ, Unfortunately, too many companies to include National Governments have waited until 1998 to even begin an assessment. Unfortunately, "late ship dates" will not work with Y2K. It is a come as you are affair. The longer this complaceny lasts, the worse things are going to be. I worked in a relatively small organization where everyone had Computer Science, Ops Research, Applied Math and other strong tech backgrounds. Everyone understood the implication of Y2K, their was not foot-dragging, disbelief or attempts to subvert the project, as occurs and is occuring in many organizations today. We did the Y2K assessment in 93 and got everyone trained on the platforms that we would be adopting. 94-97 were spent rewriting and updating old code to be compliant while doing our regular work for clients. Everything is up and running now. We continue to upgrade to newer versions of software once they come out. Given my experience in a small organization of highly competent technology based workers who live and breath data, converting it into information and knowledge. We took five years to do the job right and were under no time pressure....Organizations, especially large organizations that have not started and say that they will be ready by 1 Jan 2000 don't realize or are not owning up to the true implications . This really scares me. Unfortunately, if you do own up to it, you open yourself up to lawsuits. There is no way they can be "fully" ready. Firms and governments will dance around using the phrase Mission Critical but not define it. Firms using the term mission critical are basically saying that they are not going to be ready. I hope what they consider non-mission critical is not mission critical to you, your business or your family. Are you willing to place your whole future in their hands? IMHO

To: Jay Maitland who wrote (15892)	5/4/1998 11:09:00 AM
From: R. Bond	Respond to of 31646

Jay, Thanks for the post. This is, again, is the classic myopic view whose only reference points exist in the good 'ole U.S.A. No consideration of, say, the impact of a halt to global financial markets, effects on S.E. Asia, or possible impact on the world's oil industry. MORE airhead stuff. A puff piece. No clue. And what the 'clock' story is doing in there, I can only guess. Cheers, Bond