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

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2161)	7/15/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Ken, how did they get this information anyway? Any idea? TIA John

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (2161)	7/15/1998 4:55:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

'...Yes, it's a scandal that in 1998, they are still claiming that the systems will be fixed. but they never got their hands dirty, they never spent nights at the data center trying to fix code to make the month-end run work that keeps the business running. I have, others here have. We know that the systems will fail. We know that we can handle one or two critical failures in production but on Y2K-day, the mass of corrupted data will overwhelm us. We'll fix what we can but, fair warning to the public, this is like nothing that's ever happened before. ... and anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. ...http://x10.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=371681054&CONTEXT=900535388.1369178223&hitnum=3