interesting statistic

greenspun.com : LUSENET : Electric Utilities and Y2K : One Thread

for the last two years it has been bandied about that, due to the preponderance of pc's in business environments and the *easy* fixes to remediate same, y2k would not be the problem that the less optimistic among us imagined.

imagine my surprise when stumbling upon this statistic released by ibm.

http://news.excite.com/news/r/991022/00/tech-markets-ibm

IBM has estimated that 70 percent of the world's business data is stored on its mainframes, often in big, centralized data centers. The threat of a Y2K failure on any of these systems appears to have made corporate computer buyers loathe to introduce any changes ahead of the year 2000 date change.

-- Anonymous, October 23, 1999


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