“No one industry is immune,” said John Phelps, from the Gartner Group consulting agency, a specialist in the year 2000 issue. “And no one industry is handling the problem better than another. It’s cross-vendor, hardware, software, mainframes, PCs.”
Phelps said businesses that use computers (including counties) must create a “year 2000 project.”
Some of the things to consider include:
creating an inventory of your program library
prioritizing the impact on your business, and
setting a time frame to enforce the changes.
“You may fix it by purely logic, or you may fix it by logic and changing data, or you may even go and buy new applications off the shelf,” he said.
No matter what you decide, Phelps says, “you cannot wait.”
“There is no silver bullet to fix this problem,” he said. “To paraphrase an old saying, There are only three certainties in life: death, taxes and the year 2000.’”