It would be interesting to see if the compliant systems are also breaking down and not just the ones that were not compliant.

-- Brent Nichols (b-nichol@ihug.co.nz), January 04, 2000

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Just a side note. I work in my company's IT department (although not in a techincal position). I've learned a lot from overhearing discussions with the IT manager and other staff. It's amazing what "compliant" can mean. Sometimes it's just what the higher up's want to hear, sometimes it's just "close enough".

-- brent (me@over.here.net), January 04, 2000.

Brent...They were all compliant, remember? Nothing anywhere on the planet has been affected by Y2K...it's all Wet, Kamikazee, pissed-off squirells riding around on Mylar balloons looking for an opurtunity to drop into an electrical box or someones computer...

-- Satanta (EventHoriz@n.com), January 04, 2000.

Well...some glitches you just can't test for.

-- brent (me@over.here.net), January 04, 2000.

Of the 2 confirmed Y2K glitches that we have experienced at work so far, one was in an oracle database that had been remediated and independantly verified by IBM, and one was in a server which we knew to be non compliant.

There has been at least one other fault in a PLC that may have been a Y2K issue, but as the problem was fixed by simply rebooting we are not going to spend time and money investigating.

-- Malcolm Taylor (taylorm@es.co.nz), January 04, 2000.