Y2K, the Bad: Fear, hype and the blame game (pt 2 of 3)
Posted by Mike on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 176 views
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?
