RE: Y2K problems - Armageddon or Much Ado about Nothing?

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Headline from February 2000

MICROSOFT DECLARES BANKRUPCY

Redmond WA

Bill Gates today said Microsoft was filing for bankrupcy.  He blamed the
situtation on Year 2000 problems in the financial applications running
on Windows NT 5.0 (Beta 17,124.7) and SQL Server that Microsoft uses to
run their business.  Asked why they weren't still running their line of
business financial applications on IBM's AS/400 Gates cited stupidity as
the reason.  "Our own internal CIO actually believed our own marketing
hype on how NT & SQL Server were scalable, reliable & secure.  How
stupid can you get ?".



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Dixon [SMTP:rob.dixon@erros.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 11:47 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Y2K problems - Armageddon or Much Ado about Nothing?
> 
> 
>   << snip >>
> 
> I agree, but for this list, AS/400 is the concern.  Do you have a view
> on how
> AS/400 sites are getting along?  Will any AS/400's get blamed for
> companies going
> under?
> 
> Rob Dixon
> Erros plc
> 
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