Re: Y2K Lawsuit

[email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (James W Kilgore)]

Booth,

AFAIK, the standard yard stick for the life of a system has been 5-7 years.  A 
1993 solution was not -expected- to be in place beyond 2000.  I agree, it would 
all depend on how it was presented, in writing.


Happy Holidays
James W. Kilgore
email@James-W-Kilgore.com


boothm@ibm.net wrote:

> 1993?  How much was dasd back then?  I clearly remember discussions on the 
>cost of dasd to store the "19" and nearly everyone agreeing that when it came 
>to adding in a gazzillion 19s the choice was "save the money".
>
> In <Pine.SV4.3.96.981223203545.20383A-100000@saltmine.radix.net>, on 12/23/98
>    at 08:38 PM, Don <dr2@cssas400.com> said:
>
> >> HOPEFULLY any judge will see that these people made the DUMB decision to 
>buy a
> >> release and never move forward...
>
> >That will depend...especially on how it was presented to the prospective
> >client...
>
> >AND, we actually have seen source code with comments from the original
> >vendor along with code documenting where date routines are to be not
> >executed because they knew in 1993 that their code wasn't going to work
> >after 1999...THAT is defecive code...and should get a vendor zapped!
>

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