-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 1/5/99 7:07:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, lloyd@A-
ALBIONIC.COM writes:
<< At 09:16 PM 1/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
> Maybe someone can answer this question for me. Why don't folks just
>purchase new y2K compliant software. Export the old data from the old
>software....Automatically alter all the old dates in the old data to a
>compliant format and then up-load the data into the new software....this
>would seem to be the best investment of time and money.
Good point. Maybe the central conspirators are running
the bug-fixing racket and planned the bug crisis. They'll
cash in to the tune of billions and then sit back in their
remote estates while Y2K culls the herd. Several people
have told me they've read or heard accounts of programmers
who warned people years ago about Y2K, and they were just
ignored. Could be psychology, or maybe it was the plan. >>
My understanding of things is like this:
There is no easy answer software that will automatically convert the data and
store it. Many of the non-compliant computers are very old and run their own
proprietary systems, which software was written by one or two independant
programmers say 25 years ago. A large part of the problem is that the code
for many of these systems is either lost or was never documented. Many of
these programs were rush jobs, and the code is very sloppy and hard to figure.
In some cases, the original programmers are dead. In order to export the
data, new programmers must be hired to first figure out _how_ to export the
data. They have to reverse engineer the original code in order to figure
things out and then convert the data into something a compliant program can
understand.
The only other solution is to print out ALL of the original data and hire
people to input it all by hand into a new program. That could take a long
time as well, but may be the only solution for some ailing organizations who
are having no luck with their original code. But then, you run the risk of
human error in the data entry process, so go figure.
That's all I know about that.
-Crimm
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