Major Negative Y2K Change

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Second Major Negative Y2K Change By Sylvia Dennis, Newsbytes November 23, 1999

The Compliance Tracker Delta Report for the month included 232 negative status changes, 155 of which resulted from products being down-graded from compliant to another "not Y2K ready" status by their manufacturer.

In addition, the firm reports there were significant Y2K Corrective Action Plan updates for 775 products already classified as "Action Required."

Kevin Weaver, the firm's vice president, said that, with the 118 products for which manufacturers withdrew all Y2K disclosure information, a total of 1,291 products were tracked by Infoliant as reporting some sort of Y2K compliance status change in October.

"All of these changes in late 1999 may mean that companies who thought they had solved the Y2K problem early might experience problems in 2000," he said. If this happens, Weaver said, vendors, lawyers, and insurers are sure to ask what steps were taken to stay on top of the latest corrective action plans.

"With as late as some of these disclosures are being reported, and the bulk of corporate Y2K remediation efforts being completed, the history of how some manufacturers continued to revise Y2K readiness information will surely be scrutinized if failures or losses occur," he said.

Weaver warned that, if nothing else, the changes foreshadow a likely increase in technical support calls from users who didn't get the latest information in time.

Infoliant's Web site is at http://www.infoliant.com .

Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .

-- Rainbow (Rainbow@123easy.net), November 24, 1999

Answers

--gee, wonder how far DOWN the food chain the lawsuits will go, once the failures start? All the way to the programmers and engineers, maybe? Like, records have never been "lost" or "doctored", right? Phony "memos' and "secret, proprietary inter office memos" have never been created and back dated out of thin air, right? I guess so, corporate America NEVER lies, do they? I mean, they go on tv and tell us, right? And the reporters really, really, really always research and dig up the real skinny and ask the tough questions, right? I mean they do, don't they? And upper management ALWAYS graciously accepts the "blame" if something goes wrong, right? Because they realize it's their fault? And if they were having "problems", they would SURELY tell their stockholders, even if it made them look BAD and effected the stock price, right? They would NEVER lie to a congressional hearing, or a judge, or a jury, would they? Or their customers, or anything.......right?

just musing zog

-- zog (zzoggy@yahoo.com), November 24, 1999.


Yeah, right. Unfortunately, the ones that will get targeted and destroyed first will be the few good programmers that don't have to resort to "office politics" and sabotage to keep their jobs.

When the dust settles, and all the talent has been purged, those firms will be worse off than they were when they started. They won't stay in business very long after that. I've seen it happen before. When you cut corners, you cut off your head. It's usually a delayed reaction, but it happens nonetheless.

-- hunter (way@up.north), November 25, 1999.


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