Re: The 1972 Y2K fix

[DAsmussen@xxxxxxx]

Jon,

In a message dated 9/5/99 7:15:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Jon.Paris@halinfo.it writes:

>  >> did you know ross perot recommended the 1972 fix about 6 months ago on 
> larry king live?
>  
>  Oh he's just ensuring that his company will get services and consulting 
revenues
>  in the future when the users rebel and they have to fix it all properly  
<bg>

Yes, he is.  Given that EDS is still solvent, he's also apparently more 
skilled at hiring managers than he is at running a company himself.  Given 
Mr. Perot's nutcase run for the US Presidency a few years back, I wouldn't 
buy anything from him if the purchase price were free and it came with a $1M 
rebate.  Besides, when it comes to "tough journalism", Larry King is water to 
Mike Wallace's 12M HCl.

>  By the way, I think "The 1972 Y2K fix" is a mis-nomer - it is not a "fix" 
it is
>  a "work-round" or "hack".

Or, another way to make money when you don't have a _real_ solution...

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real." -- Ben J. 
Wattenberg
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