----- Original Message ----- From: Reggie Bautista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:24 PM Subject: Re: Y2K > > I go back and forth between wanting to laugh and wanting to strangle someone > (no personal offense intended or threat implied) when I hear people talk > about how Y2K was all hype and no substance. The reason there was no > widespread chaos in the heavily computerized portions of the world is that > computer professionals in those heavily computerized countries and/or > industries worked serious amounts of overtime to make sure that everything > worked as it should. > But, that was not true everywhere. There was still a lot of non-compliant stuff computerized stuff. The effort put into compliance in similar companies varied several orders of magnitude. Its not as though no effort was needed at all, rather the people selling Y2K fixes convinced a lot of people that they needed a lot more work than they possibly could. I know at my company that the effort to compy with Y2K was way out of porportion to the risk. If I am wrong, why didn't all the non-compliant stuff that existed cause serious difficulties? Dan M.
