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

To: Jim who wrote (5264)	4/5/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Jim Your point is correct however, if a PICK programmer wanted to store it this way. Or any other OS. Early in Y2K time I spoke with some bigish company that had been redoing it's 6 main applications into Oracle. Oracle has a whole set of native Y2Kok date handling routines... which were completely ignored in the "rewrite". They became Y2Kaware just as the 5th application (after beaucoup bucks) was going live. Point being... the organizational inertia to keep the old familiar date formats (yymmdd) was just too great. Major bummer. - David