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Microcap & Penny Stocks : CSHK CASHCO MANAGEMENT Y2K -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (3248)	5/29/1998 11:39:00 AM
From: Larry Voyles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7491

I'll reply to your off-topic query here, but I promise to take anything else to PM, so nobody jump on me too hard. Delta management is kicking our collective butts and spending buckets of money to get their stuff Y2K compliant well before "doomsday". Anything that touches planes or passengers comes first. I will have no problem flying on a DL plane at midnight, 12/31/1999 (<--Y2K compliant date). There is now an entire stable of people here that do nothing but help with Y2K. There's an incredible amount of work that goes into each and every system that needs Y2K renovation. The actual coding notwithstanding, the command and control infrastructure required for coordinating Y2K is massive. Just think about a typical large company that has 100's of separate systems that all talk to each other. How do you renovate them? One at a time? All at once? How do you keep them talking to each other? How do you stage the renovated systems back into production? How do you schedule the people and resources? How do you test all this sht? What a headache. Right now DL is delaying everything that can be delayed to concentrate on Y2K . IMHO, the majority of companies out there are not putting nearly enough emphasis on the Y2K problem. It's really, really, REALLY big. A cool guy named Charlie Feld (of Feld Group fame) has been named CIO of DL, and he is absolutely kicking a* to ensure that DL stays on-task with Y2K. We have outsourced a small amount of the actual renovation to a much-hated and rightfully-maligned foreign firm. The Y2K evaluation-renovation-integration methodology was developed by a "prominent national consulting company" and then modified internally so that it actually works. We've bought boatloads of tools to help with the evaluation and renovation, but contrary to the great expectations and hopes out in the world, there have been no signs of a magical silver bullet solution to the Y2K problem. In the end, some poor geek still has to go over the code line-by-line or evaluate each piece of hardware individually, and that takes lots of time and lots of money. The Y2K group here has purchased, procured and otherwise developed databases of software and hardware and their level of Y2K compliance, and that's what we're referring to when evaluating what's "out there". As far as my web-site counter goes, I get what I pay for.