Comment Here we go again (Score 1) 625
Ahem... can't imagine why this was brought to my attention.
For those of you who believe that it was all a hoax, I'd ask you to do a little bit of research.
Do a google on the terms: Y2K Pathlan Downs NHS
Read the report, and the consider the consequences of this 'little' problem. This wasn't covered by the media... the report was released on Sept 10th 2001... I can see why it got lost in the shuffle.
There were other problems. Most of the companies I was in contact with confided that they had 100-200 problems over the coming months. Most minor, some major. I was in touch with Fortune 1000 type companies from around the world.
Ask yourself, what possible motivation any of these companies had for contacting the media and telling them they had a significant Y2K problem. All of them, rightly, stayed as far away from the media as possible.
Was it hyped? Of course it was... and MANY of us, myself included were stating throughout 1999 that we'd taken care of the issue. The media didn't give that perspective much airtime... instead Gary North and his ilk, as well as some prominent IT folks continued with TEOTWAWKI.
Glad it's over.
Glad I was involved.
Never Again.
Yours Truly
Peter de Jager
p.s. And no. Despite MANY media reports to the contrary. The site was NOT sold for $10M
For those of you who believe that it was all a hoax, I'd ask you to do a little bit of research.
Do a google on the terms: Y2K Pathlan Downs NHS
Read the report, and the consider the consequences of this 'little' problem. This wasn't covered by the media... the report was released on Sept 10th 2001... I can see why it got lost in the shuffle.
There were other problems. Most of the companies I was in contact with confided that they had 100-200 problems over the coming months. Most minor, some major. I was in touch with Fortune 1000 type companies from around the world.
Ask yourself, what possible motivation any of these companies had for contacting the media and telling them they had a significant Y2K problem. All of them, rightly, stayed as far away from the media as possible.
Was it hyped? Of course it was... and MANY of us, myself included were stating throughout 1999 that we'd taken care of the issue. The media didn't give that perspective much airtime... instead Gary North and his ilk, as well as some prominent IT folks continued with TEOTWAWKI.
Glad it's over.
Glad I was involved.
Never Again.
Yours Truly
Peter de Jager
p.s. And no. Despite MANY media reports to the contrary. The site was NOT sold for $10M
