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

To: The Stockman who wrote (2128)	7/12/1998 6:25:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

"About half the companies we survey don't plan to test the code they've fixed for Y2K," says Lou Marcoccio, Y2K research director for the Gartner Group Inc., a consulting and research organization in Stamford, Conn. "They're just going to put it in production, and that's scary." Marcoccio's figure isn't just a snapshot or a rough estimate: Gartner monitors 15,000 companies in 23 vertical industries and 87 countries. Time and money are the biggest reasons so many companies seem likely to ignore this crucial phase of software development. Experts say that testing can consume anywhere from 40% to 80% of the total resources needed for a successful Y2K conversion. ... industryweek.com