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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (691)	5/17/1998 1:08:00 AM
From: jwk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

Sire -- In light of specific, factual information recently given in sworn testimony before congressional committees by recognized experts, the platitudes expressed in that article are at best uninformed fluff.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (691)	5/17/1998 6:10:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1361

[PC] LOL 'A year from now, most of the Y2K issues will have been resolved...' So-called 'Y2k-awareness' is a process involving the following steps: - ignorance 'never heard of it' - awareness 'heard of it' - denial 'this can't be true'; 'they must have thought of it'; etc etc - anger - bargaining - acceptance (terms from the book of Kappelman; 'Year 2000 problem') Guess what phase this guy is in? In the last 10 - 15 years, most of the sexy and glamorous work in IT has been around PC's (e.g. Microsoft software) and networking (tcp/ip networking; internet/intranet etc). As these are relatively new industries; relatively spoken there are not that many Y2k problems. Indeed; Y2k will not hit that hard in those areas. People working in the PC and PC software industry have little or no idea of 'traditional' mainframe computing and of industrial computing (so-called 'embedded systems'). They tend to view the world through the glasses of their image of the world ('PC-centric' view). But: The world is run by about 50000 mainframes from IBM and other mainframe manufacturers; that is the area with the real problems. Many mission-critical systems on mainframes are running things like railroads; stock markets; financial transactions; flight control systems. Read some posts from Cory Hamasaki on newsgroup comp.software.year-2000 to get a grasp of what is going on. John ___________ 'From PC Magazine, June 9,1998 Looking Forward to the Millennium By Jake Kirchner Throughout its short, amazing history, the personal computing revolution has been fueled by equal parts innovation and enthusiasm--the enthusiasm of the inventors of the hardware and software and the enthusiasm of the millions of people who have embraced the technology for business and personal use. So it's astounding to me to see so many in this industry down in the dumps about the millennium.' ... ... or will be on their way to resolution. This will not be an easy or inexpensive problem to fix. But any company that puts off necessary technology upgrades to focus on Y2K projects will wake up in the new millennium to find itself an also-ran. ... zdnet.com