Posted by Mike on Monday, March 29, 2010 - 282 views
… an “oldie but a goodie” …
There was once a COBOL programmer in the mid to late 1990s. For the sake of this story, we’ll call him Jack. After years of being taken for granted and treated as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers and Client/Server programmers and website developers, Jack was finally getting some respect. He’d become a private consultant specializing in Year 2000 conversions. He was working short-term assignments for prestige companies, traveling all over the world on different assignments, and making more money than he’d ever dreamed of.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, January 4, 2010 - 272 views
It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the dreaded Millennium Bug put fear into the hearts of technology specialists, software developers, business executives, and legal departments everywhere.
Fears of massive system failures abounded, including worries about errant missile launches thanks to computers confused about what century we were in. But the calendar flipped from Dec. 31, 1999, to Jan. 1, 2000, with the world relatively unscathed from the Y2K switchover. MORE
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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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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It’s been 10 years since the infamous ‘Year 2000 bug’ crashed the millennium party; Here’s what we learned.
In the years and months leading up to the new millennium, IT organizations spent billions patching systems and replacing hardware and software that had infamously been designed to support only a two-digit year — a problem dubbed the Year 2000 bug, the Millennium bug, or simply Y2K.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, August 17, 2009 - 309 views
Computer experts were called out of retirement to reboot computers that relied on Fortran and Cobol programs. The pending disaster came to nil. … MORE
Posted by Mike on Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 145 views
Cobol, the venerable computer language so beloved of Y2K-fearing businesses, has hit 50 years young today, having been invented on the 28th of May 1959 … more here.
