Re: YEAR 2000 SOLUTIONS CONFERENCE -- CALL FOR PAPERS

On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Peter Zuckerman wrote: > * * * * * CALL FOR PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS * * * * * > > > YEAR 2000 SOLUTIONS > > Theme: Resources & Strategies for Managing > the Year 2000 Date Problem > > March 18-21, 1996 * Washington D.C. * U.S.A. > > This is your invitation to participate in the leading international > conference and exposition on resources and strategies for managing the > year 2000 date problem. I might be igniting a flame war here, but... What a totally fatuous idea! I thought this was a laborious practical joke at first, but now I see it's not. An entire conference devoted to the date change?! Any project manager or system architect who didn't account for this in the last 20 years should be sued for malpractice, not sent on a junket a company expense! And those unfortunates who inherited systems from such clowns would be better off working on fixing the mess than attending a conference which apparently has not yet identified enough actual issues or solutions to put together a brochure. Speaking only for himself: Roy Hann