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

To: Joe Dancy who wrote (1695)	5/6/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: otter	Respond to of 9818

A DOW 10,000 computer problem sounds a little like a chicken little forecast to me. Any designer worth his or her salt would have made sure that a data field into which that number had been stored would have expansion capability. Having said that, I know plenty of people who wouldn't have done it. To your second point, asking an IT manager if there is a crisis on which $ should be spent is a question that is more than a little self-selecting. How many IT managers who maintain a lot of legacy systems would.... well you know. The long and short of it is that yes, I believe there will be problems. No, I do NOT believe it will jerk the economy around as much as some of the fear mongers say.