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By Minda Zetlin

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There isn't any time to hold up. The 12 months 2000 challenge is either lethal severe and frighteningly approaching. And whereas there is nonetheless time to house Y2K, it is going to require a enormous attempt from everyone--and that comes with non-technical pros such as you. Surviving the pc Time Bomb is the 1st ebook to assist managers either understand the importance of this looming challenge and advance clever motion plans for getting ready for it. because the booklet lucidly explains, this isn't simply one other laptop challenge in your technical specialists. a number of the the most important decisions--such as identifying which platforms warrant a yr 2000 improve, developing contingency plans for changing structures that unexpectedly fail, and assessing the Y2K readiness of your key suppliers--are company concerns that in basic terms you could deal with. With Surviving the pc Time Bomb, you are going to sift throughout the it is community's wildly contradictory predictions of what is in shop for us...realistically troubleshoot the types of difficulties you are prone to encounter...and effectively practice your very important function in solving the matter, together with how you can: * enlist the aid of senior administration in making Y2K a best precedence * decrease defections between programmers and IT managers * guard your self opposed to the inevitable barrage of Y2K court cases * combine the yr 2000 challenge into each point of your small business method. to maintain crucial structures from falling sufferer to a yr 2000 malfunction, you cannot drag your ft, and also you cannot move off your accountability. enable Surviving the pc Time Bomb lead you to good judgements approximately successfully getting ready for--and extensively minimizing--the impression of Y2K.

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Now, imagine that it's ten years later. You have long since moved on, and a new programmer is working on the year 2000 project. She comes across this statement: IF ROVER > 60 THEN GOTO 1400. You know the program is used for calculating bank loans, and when you look at instruction 1400, you learn that it sets a particular interest rate. But what is ROVER? Here are just a few of the endless possibilities: ROVER is the age of the borrower; the bank wants to give a better rate to those over sixty. ROVERis the year the borrower's account was first opened; the bank wants to give a higher rate to those who opened their account before 1960.

But they're different types of reprogramming; there's little effort to be saved by doing both projects at once. On the contrary, most people who understand the IT industry think introducing the euro at the same time the year 2000 must be dealt with is foolhardyespecially considering that even without the euro, we're already suffering from a worldwide shortage of programmers. Given that the European Union has been talking about a single currency for more than a decade, would it kill them to wait until, say, 2001 to roll it out?

_ Have you performed ''triage" to determine the computer systems without which you cannot function? This is an essential first step, but so far business managers have been understandably reluctant to give up any of their systems. Bad idea. Few, if any, companies will be able to fix every system, so some tough choices have to be madeand putting off those decisions means losing valuable time. Page xviii _ Have you worked out contingency plans to replace those systems if they fail? Some people seem to think that contingency planning means making sure the system doesn't fail.

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