We got on the subject of the “Y2K problem” at dinner the other night. My 14-year-old daughter said, “Why was everyone worked up about it? Nothing happened. It couldn’t have been that big of a deal.”
Like most of you, having lived through it people did a huge amount of work and testing, not to mention, spent billions of dollars and time to address issues. Her cavalier comment really took me by surprise but, she was born 7 years after the event so in her worldview its just history that doesn’t affect her. To your comment Bill, a lot of people, and especially those in mgmt now, that lack the context of where we came from and take for granted what they have and wave their hands that the cloud can replace the mainframe highlights how little they understand the problem. Matt Hogstrom [email protected] +1-919-656-0564 PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 Facebook <https://facebook.com/matt.hogstrom> LinkedIn <https://linkedin/in/mhogstrom> Twitter <https://twitter.com/hogstrom> “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive." — Hogstrom > On Jul 26, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Bill Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It amazes me how little most laypeople know about IT and how easily they are > brainwashed into believing the cloud will solve everything. Oh, and how > little they’re willing to spend. Except for their cinnamon dolce latte. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
