Paul Milne: Technet Article-survey by CIO magazine

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From Tech Week:

A poll of top Y2K professionals just conducted by CIO magazine, in conjunction with Information Systems Audit and Control Association and Dr. Ed Yardeni's Y2K Center, showed that only 8 percent of the organizations surveyed (most with at least 1,000 employees) had completed their Y2K work and almost half were behind schedule.

"We're not doing as well as [White House Y2K czar John] Koskinen would like us to believe," says Soquel-based Y2K consultant William Ulrich.

Noting that a Cap Gemini study showed that half of the Fortune 500 companies surveyed had fixed only half of their code by January, Ulrich says, "The emphasis now is on contingency planning and crisis management." . .

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The FACT is that the job is NOT getting done. And remember that it is worse than you thought, They are only working on their Mission critical systems which generally represent less than ten percent of the totality of their systems. And they are failing to even get that miniscule percentage finished. Like I said, it was always gradeschool math.

It can NOT get done in time. It never could.

It is just lovely to be an 'optimistic' person. But not in the face of the facts. The FACTS dictate that the job is NOT getting done.

If you remain in a populated area, you will probably not survive. Maybe you will get lucky, but will your kids?

http://www.techweek.com/articles/6-28-99/countdow.htm

Paul Milne

Love him or hate him.... Paul knows how to interpret a article

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), June 29, 1999

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"We're not doing as well as [White House Y2K czar John] Koskinen would like us to believe," says Soquel-based Y2K consultant William Ulrich.

What else would a Y2K consultant say? Why does every "viable, truthful" statement have to come from someone who would obviously benefit from saying it? There are plenty of real quotes out there from people who matter who also agree that we are way behind. Quoting Y2K consultants fuels the fire for the Polly's...

I say "delete" any quote that comes from a "consultant".

br14

-- br14 (br14@bout.done), June 29, 1999.


I see. What about all the politico's who scream "don'tpanicalliswelltrustmeIwouldn'tlietoyou"? Think they have a better grasp than the consultants? Think they don't have a vested interest?

"[O]nly 8 percent of the organizations surveyed...had completed their Y2K work and almost half were behind schedule". What part of that don't you get?

-- regular (zzz@z.z), June 29, 1999.


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