Re: Y2K Customer nuts?

[nina jones <ddi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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
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