For some this could be looked at as an opportunity rather than a
problem. I've recently read about MANY older programmers who had
retired because no one wanted their old mainframe skills any more.
Now they're in hot demand. I think people like Paul Strassman (former
Pentagon information chief) are disasterbating about how much it will
cost to fix - one person's cost is another's income.
The problems in commercial software applications and organization's
customized information processing systems should be relatively easy to
fix. The more serious problems may be in existing HARDWARE, such as
old routers, that have these date problems hardcoded into them. Here
the only solution may be to replace the equipment. But, again, one
person's need is another person's opportunity.
Mark Crosby
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