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Technology Stocks : WHAT IS BEYOND 2000 FOR Y2K COMPANIES -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (4)	5/27/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: JSI	Respond to of 29

John, I've lurked for quite a while on a few Y2K threads, and contributed to some, TAVA, PTUS. I usually agree with most everything you post, however, this time I think you may be wrong. In your previous post, you wrote Also, remediation will be done increasingly using all kinds of temporary stop-gaps. These stop gaps will have to handled after 1/2000. I think that if these stop-gaps/fixes/patches are in place and functioning properly, you will be hard pressed for an organization (read management/CIO) to go back and make the fixes. Basically, it's the if it ain't broke, don't fix it mentality. It will take a fundamental change in the way that IT thinks to get organizations to go back and re-code a temporary patch that is currently working. Most of today's spaghetti code is a result of this logic and "patchwork". I agree that all the work won't be done by 1/2000, I just think that if there are temporary fixes in place, they'll quickly be renamed as permanent. IMHO JSI