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

To: foobert who wrote (1751)	5/10/1998 8:21:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 9818

>>The resultant code was unmaintainable<< That pretty much sums up my own experience. A few years ago we converted the I/O in our Cobol programs from Adamint to Ada-SQL. The conversion program added a lot of confusing junk. I cleaned up the programs I was responsible for, and did later conversions manually. Based on that experience I've been skeptical about Y2K companies offering "automated code conversion factories" and I've avoided the sector. BTW, I'm really amazed at how far behind so many organizations are in dealing with Y2K software problems. My shop dealt with this issue back in 1983.

To: foobert who wrote (1751)	5/11/1998 1:41:00 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Respond to of 9818

Might pop over to the IAIC thread here on SI and recount your story... There's several sharp techies there who are quite thrilled with IAIC's tool/factory solution to Computer Associates Installed Client Base in certain protocols. The Navy has come in after the AirForce got'em used'em liked 'em and reupped recently for more from IAIC. I'd personally like to hear their responses and then hear your response there as well. I do hope you take me up on this!!! FWIW, their stock trades around 10-15 bucks and is NON-Marginable, it's so thin...just thot I'd mention it...I follow-it as kind of a "Y2K factory bellweather" instead of buying & holding or even Buying and Trading. Thanks for taking the time to post your COBOL/RPG experiences. Ole IAIC lurker/ 49r IAIC Thread URL: exchange2000.com