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

To: jwk who wrote (3077)	12/29/1998 1:09:00 AM
From: Investor-ex!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Jim Lehrer is good, and that's a fairly good interview. I'm glad they brought out the fact that those systems that have been "forced" to look years ahead SHOULD be ahead of the curve. Annuity, mortgage, long range forecasting, etc. would all have gotten an early heads up on Y2k. The fact that the SSA had started in 1989 does not, in general, bode well for everyone else. Why did it take them so long to attend to their immediate systems? Perhaps they took their sweet time, maybe they were limited to a certain amount of repair activity each year due to budget constraints, it could be they are obsessed with thoroughness, or maybe their management/staff wasn't up to the task. Or, it just plain took that long? I wish we had more of the particulars. In any event, Ed Yourdon predicts that, as is typical with most large-scale projects, things will be reported more or less happy-face until the last possible minute (whenever that is, and it could well be before 1999-12-31), and then we'll finally get the "real" project status. Unfortunately, the deadline can't be moved and it gets cold, dark, and snowbound here in the winter!