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

To: Caroline who wrote (2650)	10/5/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Caroline: Re: network down because of a Y2K bug. I agree with you. I doubt that the whole network went down. It's far more likely that the application that handles appointments became unavailable. It is common practice to revoke access to an application that is having processing problems. Some data base servers will go so far as to revoke access to the data base after an application has created a problem. This severe reaction is sometimes taken to protect the rest of the data base from corruption. I think the network was fine, but perhaps the only application ON the network was stopped. I've heard "the network is down" too many times, when in reality the user who reported the "problem" had his/her monitor turned off. Who knows what little incident could have provoked a comment that was repeated and modified many times before it finally got to the reporter ... who put his own interpretation into the story that has a sole purpose of generating sales ... not reporting facts ??? Regards, TED