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But a federation survey of the country's local governments found more than half have waited too long to address the Y2K problem and may not be ready for Jan. 1, 2000 as a result.
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I love the DISCONNECT in the above sentence. If they have waited TOO long, then they will NOT make it. You can not say that you are TOO late to catch a train but you MAY catch it. You are either too late or not too late. Nor partially too late.
Too late is too late. But they do not want to scare people with the truth and the facts.
Maybe this is just poor journalism or poor syntax. Maybe he meant to say that they waited a long long long time and were still on the threshold of being too late. LOL LOL LOL
With disconnected Pollyannas late is never TOO late.
Oh, here is another gem from the article;
"The FCM's survey found almost 50 per cent of respondents don't plan on testing their computer systems until later this summer -- when it's too late to fix any problems encountered."
"Audits of supposedly Y2K-ready programs have found an average of 281 mistakes in every million lines of code."
And that is in REMEDIATD code. Now think about the stuff they did not touch. 281 errors out of every million in mission critical code. How many are show stoppers?
Now, for you unconvinced out there....Canada is touted as one of the MOST advanced in remediation and they are FAILING miserably. Here is one more from the article:
"Our experience in Canada is that people aren't as ready as they think they are," said IBM's Y2K expert, Al Aubrey."
Gee, it really takes a rocket-scientist to figure that out, now, doesn't it?
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonNews/06_n1.html
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