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-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), June 18, 1999

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WRP 122 Link

-- Nabi Davidson (nabi7@yahoo.com), June 18, 1999.

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-- AberFoyle (AberFoyle@water.com), June 18, 1999.

Here's an interesting tidbit from WRP 122:

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-- Wendy's Story --

This week I stopped in at Boater's World, it's a chain of marine stores. I got my 10 Watt solar panel there. Their prices are not the best but their stores are convenient and well stocked.

Somehow, I got to talking to "Wendy" (Not her real name). Somehow? Maybe it was because she's a tall tanned blonde, 30, maybe 35 years old.

[snip]

Wendy is a free-lance SQeaLer, what DD calls an Indie. Her old man does software engineering too.

We got to talking geekspeak, donuts, non-deterministic finite state automata, and of course, Y2K. What Wendy said frightened me.

[snip]

Wendy and her old man will quit their jobs this summer. They have a 37 foot sloop in North Carolina. They have thousands of dollars in cash and are rigging the boat for extended blue water cruising. Their plan is to live at sea and sail to un-troubled areas. If it takes 3 years for things to return to normal, they are prepared for that amount of time.

They work on software for mid-sized businesses and believe that the remediation has failed, it cannot be fixed, and their colleagues who say things will be fine are in denial.

[snip]

In the last week, there have been two "Wendy" reports in c.s.y2k. Bodyarmor.com reported that a lot of their customers are programmers. This was followed by a report from Soybean.com that one of their programmer customers on the West Coast has seen a lot of programmers bail for the boonies. Soybean.com also reports that one IT shop has a Death pool, the person who guesses the number of Y2K deaths in 2000 wins the pot. The current guesses range from 22 million to 87 million in the U.S.

[end] Any similar stories out there???

-- Nabi Davidson (nabi7@yahoo.com), June 18, 1999.

My corporate contacts say that their "deadlines" have slipped from 3/30 to 6/30 to "late 3rd quarter/early 4th". Its not looking good if you look at the report cards on the Fedgov from the House committee. I'm genuinely surprised that more companies aren't finished and don't give me that-- they just don't want to say for legal reasons BS. The half dozen Fortune 100 that I have some inside knowledge of AREN'T DONE YET. Time to but more rice.

-- RD. ->H (drherr@erols.com), June 18, 1999.

I walked into a branch of a company last week to do some Networking for them. Usual stuff like getting there puters to talk to each other then out onto the net, install appropiate software, set up email blah blah blah blah

The owner of the branch asked me if we (the company I work for) does Y2K remediation as they are looking at getting it done since they received a memo from head office to start looking to get Y2K remediation done.

Needless to say I stopped dead in my tracks and my jaw dropped.

I'm sorry that I am not at liberty to reveal which company this is, but I do know this:

If this company goes down then about 5% of Australian businesses have a decent probability of losing 50% of their income.

The company I work for does not do Y2K remediation, and we ain't remediated ourselves and my boss don't give a shit.

eg. I said unto him: Our PABX system may not work next January. Him said unto me: Good that means we won't receive any phone calls.

If we had a sudden downturn of 20% in income per month then we will probably be unable to sustain ourselves as a business and considering that 100% of our client base rely on computers to interact with our business and that is also how we get our business. Then we'd probably be toast.

Regards, Simon

-- Simon Richards (simon@wair.com.au), June 19, 1999.