Y2K, the Crazy: Computer glitch or mind-blowing catastrophe? (pt 3 of 3)

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 265 views

IT was in control of Y2K issues by Millennium Eve, but users’ fears were still running rampant.

While much of the IT activity leading up to the year 2000 was drudge work — patching some systems, upgrading others — sometimes things got crazy. Or management got crazy, or users.

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Y2K, the Bad: Fear, hype and the blame game (pt 2 of 3)

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Tech-wise, Millennium Eve was so quiet, some started to wonder — did IT overspend on Y2K?

The Y2K bug may have been IT’s moment in the sun, but it also cast a long shadow in its wake.

The years and months leading up to the year 2000 were a hard slog for virtually everyone in IT, from project managers to programmers. Then, after IT definitively slayed the Y2K beast, IT executives were greeted not by cheers but with suspicious questions.

Was the Y2K threat overblown?

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