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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (12828)	9/7/1998 4:16:00 AM
From: Gary R. Owens	Respond to of 13949

Jeff, >>And who's the best prepared? The U.S. government<< After reading that I've gone from pessimistic to mapping where my unibomber shack should be. <G?>

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (12828)	9/7/1998 4:55:00 PM
From: Tom C	Respond to of 13949

Jeff, LOL..LOL.. Now I remember why I don't subscribe to PC Computing Magazine. My favorite part is this: The U.S. government, where 83 percent of sites have a Y2K project either planned or completed That reminds me of the time I was developing an Executive Information System for the IRS to track the progress of the Tax System Modernization Program (TSM, a fifteen billion dollar program). The contract required our system to interface with several other systems. I was made the CTM (Contractor Technical Manager) because the contract and development effort was floundering and the company was receiving a lot of heat from the IRS. When I took over, I was very worried about the interface requirements in the contract as this was a fixed price contract. Each attempt to setup a meeting with the IRS and the contractor for the budget application, we were required to extract data from, met with resistance. After contacting some very high up officials in the agency, I was able to force the meeting to happen. In his meeting which took only 10 minutes, I discovered that the system did not exist. It was all done manually. This shocked me because for six months everyone I talked to seemed to believe that there was a real computerized system for budget information, especially those in higher positions. Tom ps: I was happy at the time. It's very easy to build interfaces to systems that do not exist.