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Ed, I was wondering what kind of legal trouble could a company have if it has as its main business outsourcing contracts with the Federal governement and private sector?
-- Ron McCamey (rmccamey@csc.com), December 30, 1997
I'll try to respond to the question, but remember that the main focus of this Q&A forum is supposed to be the PERSONAL consequences of Y2K.Outsourcing vendors, in general, should do well for the next couple of years if they provide Y2K services. Re legal trouble: it depends, to some extent, on whether they're providing "time & materials" work, or whether they're taking complete responsibility for the entire system or application being developed. In either case, all of the outsourcing vendors that I know of have negotiated appropriate disclaimers in their contracts to deal with Y2K liability.
-- Ed Yourdon (yourdon@sprintmail.com), December 30, 1997.