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  • Subject: Re: Y2K Lawsuit
  • From: nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 08:50:59 -0600
  • Organization: data design inc http://www.datadesigninc.com

> I agree with that and started to note that in my post but got sidetracked 
>(cute
> little 2 year old needing Dad) ! Thanks

they do that at this time of year, huh!

> <AND, we actually have seen source code with comments from the original 
>vendor along
> with code documenting where date routines are to be not executed because they 
>knew in
> 1993 that their code wasn't going to work after 1999...THAT is defecive
> code...and should get a vendor zapped!>
>
> WOW - THAT is incredible (and dumb <G>) - agree here too !!

well, maybe.  it could have been notes to themselves that the code needed 
attention.

i can see the other view too...  when was the code originally written?  did the 
vendor
discuss the y2k problem with the users, and did they reject the cost of 
modifications?
sometimes you do what you have to do to get by the situation.

it never ceases to amaze me that users will reject any costs associatied with
modernizing software, and then hold the vendor responsible because it didn't 
get done.

users just expect code to be modified for free.  i guess they want the program 
fairy to
come down and do it for them..

nj
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