44% of businesses will not be compliant at year end - new survey discovers the truth

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...and that is just the one's that are willing to admit the truth! These survey findings are finally more in line with what I expected was actually happening behind the scenes.

"56 percent of IT directors and managers expect their critical systems to be 100 percent Y2K-compliant by the end of 1999"

And the 44% that are not... UH-OH!

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-- @ (@@@.@), September 27, 1999

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Also see this related thread:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001ScV

"Disconnect in new article about the latest Cap Gemini America poll"

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 27, 1999.


Linkman,

Not sure I follow you... what do you mean by "disconnect"?

-- @ (@@@.@), September 27, 1999.


Linkmeister? Helloooooooooooo?

-- @ (@@@.@), September 27, 1999.

@,

By disconnect, I mean that the title and seeming premise of the article do not match the information contained in the article. Lane Core calls a wide gap between premise and information provided "the disconnect effect."

In this particular case, "U.S. Companies Confident On Y2K Compliance -- Poll" is the name of the article, even though 44% of corporations polled now do not expect all of their critical systems to be fully compliant by year's end. That's disconnect--44% of them are not confident about compliance. In the article, the optimistic left hand that is speaking seems unaware of the pessimistic information that the right hand is providing.

I agree with you...this is not good news.

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 27, 1999.



Linkmeister,

Thanks, I see what you mean now. As long as you agree with me I guess you're OK. The article states some facts gathered in a survey, such as 56% EXPECT to be compliant. Well, that leaves 44% who will definitely not be compliant, and probably another 28% of the 56% that will not meet their "expectations". The meaning of your post might have been more obvious if you had been a little more straightforward and not so politically correct. In other words, we are in deep s**t, there is no reason for confidence, and the optimistic headline is a misleading load of crap. Thanks.

-- @ (@@@.@), September 27, 1999.


If you read more closely, you'll find that in practice Lane Core's "disconnect effect" means the title of the article summarized the *net* sense of everything presented, rather than emphasizing the negative side and ignoring (and preferably, omitting altogether) anything positive. Although I agree that Lane has found a disconnect, he's just misidentified it.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), September 27, 1999.

Flint,

Optimism is a really nice thing, but it helps if you have previous experiences to base it on. When these companies admit that they are having failures left and right, even on systems that they have already attempted to fix, what basis is there for this "expectation" that everything will be fine by the end of the year? Are they just going to wave a magic wand or something?

-- @ (@@@.@), September 27, 1999.


It's interesting that Mauldin(sp?) was saying that only 33% of the Fortune 1000 companies would not be either compliant or "close enough for government work." He said Koppelman(sp?) of S.I.M. was estimating closer to 40%. Now the figure is closer to 44%.

Let's see...theoptimist is only 2/3 survival rate, the pessimist is at 56%, and the realist is at 60%.

Folks, this is absurd. If this is the true state of affairs...Perhaps the 'infrastructure' isn't worth saving!



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), September 27, 1999.


Oh Yeah...did you notice that the BIG KAHUNAS are "looking past" Y2K to the promise of e-commerce???

If it's as bad as those numbers imply, it will become Politically Incorrect to have ANYTHING to do with these digital self destruct devices.

Like bomb making is today.



-- K. Stevens (kstevens@ It's ALL going away in January.com), September 27, 1999.



"Your tax return must be postmarked no later than April 15, 1900."

Okay, I don't get it. Was this a past thread? If so, I can't find it. We need an IRS section to the archives.



-- anon (anon@anon.com), September 27, 1999.

bold off.

-- Berry Picker (BerryPicking@yahoo.com), September 28, 1999.

darn it. bold off again.

-- Berry Picker (BerryPicking@yahoo.com), September 28, 1999.

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