Re: What after Year2000

[Charles Barnard <wizodd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 23:11 6/12/97 -0400, Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:
>My opinion is the following:
>
>1.     There will be chaos on Monday January 3, 2000.  Most applications that
>do date arithmetic with 6.0S dates will currently do addition properly, or
>can be modified without much effort.  Applications that do date subtraction
>(A/R aging, interest calculations) will be tough to fix.  

Most people will (or have) experience problesm well in advance of that date.

>2.     Some companies will not furvive, or will be all screwed up for an
>extended period of time.
>
Probably...stupidity ius usually fatal.

>3.     From an AS/400 perspective, the implementation of date data types is too
>little, too late.  Most people will not go to date data types for Y2K,
>although if IBM fixes the problems, they may be ultimately implemented.

It's there, they can't force you to implement it...

>
>4.     After surviving Jan 2000, with business running normally, many will go
>back to 6.0S dates, and not care anymore.
>

Probagbly not, but other stupid practices are waiting to bite us...

>5.     There will be a glut of programmers available by the time everything is
>fixed.  The less qualified will be out of work, and there will be downward
>pressure on the salary market.
>

Almost certaily not, as there are fewer new people going into the field
every day, and there is a continuous expansion of need for programs.  Now
if someone actually writes a truely usable AI programmer, this might be
true, but probably you still need someone who can interpert business needs
to computer functionality....
>
>Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
>Barsa Consulting, LLC. 
>400 > 390
>
>Phone: 914-251-9400
>Fax:   914-251-9406

My two cents.


Charles Barnard
Wizard of Odd
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