RE: Y2K Customer nuts?

["Erickson, Jon" <JonErickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nuts!

*       What date are they going to roll back to?
*       What about customer invoicing, aging, purchase orders, effective
date ranges?
*       What about interfacing with external vendors, customers, &
regulators, (e.g. Banks & government)?
*       What about job training?  (Oh yeah, just add 35 years to any invoice
you meant to send out yesterday, December 2, 1965.   Huh?)
*       What about AS/400 licensed programs?
*       Etc. etc.

Regards,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jon A. Erickson
Viking Industries, Inc.
 <http://www.vikingindustries.com> http://www.vikingindustries.com
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 <<Jon Erickson.vcf>> 


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Art Tostaine, Jr. [mailto:art@link400.com]
                Sent:   Wednesday, December 02, 1998 10:44 AM
                To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
                Subject:        Y2K Customer nuts?

                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?

                Art Tostaine, Jr.
                CCA, Inc.
                Parlin, NJ  08859

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