On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:53 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Sad news indeed but he did make a big mistake with his predictions >> about the severity of the Y2K problem despite selling a lot of books >> about it! > > He laughed all the way to the bank I'm sure about the Y2K work.
You think it was a hoax? IMO, it was a very critical warning that every major company around the globe examined and agreed with, and then invested a lot of money in fixing. The only reason that those things didn't happen is because of the advance warning by people like Yourdon. There were many problems in systems that weren't fixed, such as people getting video rental bills in the thousands because they had rented a VHS tape for 100 years, but because they weren't the type of systems that people's lives depended on, they were relatively simple to remedy manually. The important systems had already been fixed. -- Ed Leafe --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/pgp-signature --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
