Re: y2k reflections

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Nina (has never capitalized the first word in a sentence like the rest of the 
civilized world) Jones,

In a message dated 1/10/00 7:22:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ddi@datadesigninc.com writes:

<<snip>>
> as a profession, did we make too big a deal over some things?  for
>  example, when david asked about v3r6, the only advice he got was to
>  upgrade to version 4 or date the machine to 1972.  nothing was said that
>  it would mostly work, and if it was only for 2 months, so what!  
>  
>  well, i'm running for cover now!

Run, run, Ruuuuuuun!  I'll reiterate my anger at the news media who have 
characterized Y2K as a huge hoax perpetrated by the IS community at large.  
Did we make too big a deal over _SOME_ things?  Sure.  Did we make too big a 
deal out of Y2K as a whole?  ABSOLUTELY NOT.  The advice given David was 
certainly the easiest route to take, especially given that support will even 
be dropped for V3R7 soon.  Do _YOU_ have the resources to test every single 
aspect of the OS as it affects your business, just to stay on a lower 
release?  _I_ certainly don't know anyone that does.

The media have ignored the fact that many IS professionals (myself included) 
worked until the proverbial "11th hour" ensuring that Y2K _WASN'T_ a problem. 
 Personally, I have avoided Y2K work like the plague to prevent being 
"pigeonholed" as a "Y2K expert".  My client at Y-E drug me kicking and 
screaming into it anyhow, because they prevaricated on checking out their 
"live" systems for Y2K.  Said client had _ME_ working until 8PM, with a 
"real" employee working until 11:30PM Friday night.  The money and effort put 
in by many companies and IS professionals made Y2K the non-event that it 
should have been.  The "over reaction" by the media made Y2K a tangible event 
to those managers that refused to address it until the last minute.

JMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." -- Robert Frost
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