IT managers confident

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-- (anon@anon.anon), December 21, 1999

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I'm an IT professional for a major global corporation. I know what I say in public :) ........I am prepared to the hilt.... :(

-- Polly-Morphic Doomer (greenem31@aol.com), December 21, 1999.

Lady, Not "everyone" has to lie; any percent over 20% is sufficient to cause havoc on business continuity.

My company could not reliably become y2k compliant no matter how much capital and effort I committed but since I value my post-y2k reputation, I have "satisfied" my clients in an alternative way which happens to avoid most potential y2k disruptions.

(my company's strategic guidelines compells me to avoid unexperienced expected negative events of magnitude greater than 4 standard deviations.)(3 s.d. is an opportunity, 4 s.d. is suicide)

-- Sandwich (anon@anon.anon), December 21, 1999.


Even if by some miracle they are totally right, I'll still keep my supplies in order since we don't know what the terrorists will do. I'm glad I didn't listen to You Knowwho.

-- Larry (cobol.programmer@usa.net), December 21, 1999.

Polly-Morphic Doomer---You certainly win the "Best Name" category today in my book!!!LOL

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 21, 1999.

"IT managers highly confident of success, especially among suppliers and customers"

Should read "IT managers in Ozarks with beans-and-rice-pipe-bombs, so let janitorial staff fill out reports, stating they are highly confident of success re: y2k compatibility of company's mop and bucket, especially to suppliers and customers"

Subtitle: Now if we only have water...

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 21, 1999.



It's just words. Meaningless. 10 days until we find out, but until then, I'm watching what TPTB are doing, not what they are saying.

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 21, 1999.

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