We have voted for and built a new jail here in Tulsa Ok. It's a large and very expensive facility. The company that is to provide the software to run this facility have missed their deadlines twice now. It will cost Tulsa many thousands of $$ and it's not ready yet.This is a "real time " example of how large programs don' come in on time. And this isn't even y2k related.

-- citizen (lost@sea.com), July 25, 1999

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It MAY be Y2K related -- I don't suppose anyone has checked to see if the final system is supposed to be Y2K compliant?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.com), July 25, 1999.

How about Denver International Airport? What a bad joke that was. Or 'is' as the case may be!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 26, 1999.

Folks,

If you want a big list of failures like this, not Y2K related, just examples of over ambitious technical stuff ups read "CRASH, Learning from the World's worst computer disasters", by Tony Collins and David Bicknell, published by Simon and Schuster.

It includes a foreword by Robin Guenir, The British Y2K czar

RonD

-- Ron Davis (rdavis@ozemail.com.au), July 26, 1999.