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At 08:30 PM 12/2/98 -0600, you wrote: >> I have a customer who has just told me that they cannot afford the $500K it >> will take to upgrade all of their software/hardware (AS/400, PC's, Retail >> store Cash registers, store controllers, etc.). >> >> They want to know if they can just set the date back on their /400. The >> controller knows of people who are going to do this. They want me to test >> this on another 400. >> >> I can do this, just wondering if anyone has any serious reason why you can't >> do this? >> >> I know things like reports will show wrong dates, etc. But they don't seem >> to bother the customer. I think they are crazy. What do you think? > >it sounds sad to me. 1/2 million is a lot of money! but how do you measure that >against the cost of how bad they'll look to their customers by telling them their >dates are wrong because they wouldn't/couldn't convert to the y2k properly! > >nj > Quietly Sell the Business while it is still there Glenn ___________________________________________________ Glenn Ericson, Phoenix Consulting P O Box 701164 East Elmhurst NY 11370-3164 USA Phone 718 898 9805 Fax 718 446 1150 AS/400 & Year 2000- - Solutions Specialists © 1998 copyright, all rights reserved ____________________________________________________ +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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