Revisit Koskinen's Statement of April 1999 (Approx.) For Explanation of Why We Need to Hope That The Hype Was Hoax

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"many of them are saying they're simply going to wait, see what breaks, and then they will fix it once it's broken. We are trying to tell them that that's a very high risk roll of the dice, because when they go to get the fix, whether it's an upgrade in their software or a replacement for the software or the hardware, it will be obvious what the fix is, everyone will know how to do it, but the risk is, they will be at the end of a very long line of other people who waited to see what broke and then decided to fix it. And the fix will work just fine when it arrives, but it may not arrive until March, April or May of the year 2000, and these companies and governments and those who decided to wait and see may find that they're going to be severely challenged in continuing their operations"

-John Koskinen, circa April 1999

Right now all the remediation delinquents (SMEs and foreign entities) are either laughing themselves silly at the non-event or they are trying to figure out why their internal business systems are scrambled. Let's hope they're laughing and drinking.

Sorry I don't have a link for the quote above. It was pulled off an old thread. The government document is no longer at the old URL.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000


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