Any agency that updated their software at
the end of last year when there should have
been a lockdown on new upgrades are suspect.

If following this upgrade, they had a
significant disruption in their data, I would
catagorize this as a Y2K problem.

-- Anonymous, September 18, 2000

Answers

Some examples of this are those that used
software upgrades form SAP or PeopleSoft.

Here is an article on PeopleSoft:

PeopleSoft shares closed at $18.38 on
Friday, a drop of more than 30 percent
since January.

. . .

Berquist said the industry peaked in 1997
with about $35 billion in revenue. Since
then, the industry has languished at between
$25 and $30 billion in revenue, and he and
other analysts say that one main reason
for the drop-off was the Y2K glitch.

The theory goes that many companies last year
simply stopped buying enterprise software --
which can cost hundreds of thousands to
hundreds of millions of dollars -- when
they realized they could not have it in
place and tested in time for any possible
millennium trouble.

GICC

-- Anonymous, September 28, 2000