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If you don't pay to fix y2k, it won't be fixed. Almost half of polled managers of computer divisions say they don't expect to receive extra money in 1998.
A few say they won't need extra money. One cause for their optimism: they don';t have legacy systems. But the y2k problem is about legacy systems: old code. The non-legacy systems interact with legacy systems. The bad data will spread.
This appeared in COMPUTERWORLD (Sept. 22).
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To hear some analysts tell it, every IS manager under the sun should be ramping up his year 2000 repair effort now, if not yesterday.
But a Computerworld survey on budget trends for next year shows IS managers are split about whether they should take a bigger bite out of next year's budgets to take care of the year 2000 bug. Forty-eight percent of those surveyed said they expect year 2000 spending to rise next year, 46% expect it to stay flat and 6% predicted a drop. . . .
One reason some managers are confident is that their applications or hardware are relatively new, meaning they are more likely to be year 2000-compliant than older, mainframe-based Cobol systems.
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