Re: The Great Year-2000 Hoax!

On Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:11:54 -0700, Bob Morris <bmorris@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> [thanks to all respondents to my Y2K queries - any other comments, >> points of view, or examples would be welcome] > >The LA Times today had a front page article about the IRS and Year 2000. >By the IRSs own estimate, it will take -1800 man years- just to get one >of their four modules Year 2000 ready. That's 1800 people working for >an entire year... ...in COBOL. Assuming a conservative suicide rate of, say, 100%, we should see the IRS complete this silly project the day before the sun explodes. If I were a highly-paid consultant for the IRS, I'd tell 'em to run Oracle (or any other mainstream database) on UNIX servers and make the whole shebang hook up to the web. Given that the IRS has unlimited funding, it should be possible, no? Personally, I'd say that the IRS has no idea how long it's going to take and that they made everything up because they were put on the spot. -Nathan