Re: Y2K Jargon

[david.kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dave_Tomita@ibm.net wrote:

>Can anyone help clarify the differences (if any) between
>Y2K-compliant vs. Y2K-ready vs. Y2K-compatible?

Dave,

Do you think anyone's going to proclaim their system ready but admit it's
not compliant, or compatible but not ready? As far as I know there's no
universally accepted body that's attempted to define these terms for Y2K,
and even if there were the chances of everyone out there correctly using
and understanding them in their narrow sense is vanishingly close to zero,
I'd say.

Imagine the court cases: "We never said our system was Y2K-compliant,
m'lud, or even compatible; we made it perfectly clear it was only
Y2K-ready."

To my mind compliant = compatible = ready = proof =
any-old-word-that-implies-it-won't-bomb.

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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