From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30df5a909ff1af4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert I. Eachus" Subject: Re: Answering an Ada/COBOL Question Date: 1999/11/19 Message-ID: <3835C97E.32D0A7DA@mitre.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 550712479 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <80vfv9$m0s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <71KY3.750$e65.37632@typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.mitre.org X-Trace: top.mitre.org 943048719 19744 129.83.41.77 (19 Nov 1999 21:58:39 GMT) Organization: The MITRE Corporation Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Nov 1999 21:58:39 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-19T21:58:39+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: >I attended a Y2K seminar in the DoD, and very much the feeling >that was projected was that DoD was in much worse shape, and... I think that the DoD is in much better shape than the commercial sector wrt Y2K. However, the military does in fact have a much worse problem. Not only do many of their systems have to work on Jan. 1, 2000, they have to worry about contingency planning for all sorts of eventualities encountered in the private, public, and government sectors, plus overseas. In other words, even if all DoD systems are fine, and there are only isolated problems around the world, planning groups may have a very busy night figuring out where help is needed and can be provided. (Such as potable water, portable generators, etc., the normal hurricane or flood drill...) -- Robert I. Eachus with Standard_Disclaimer; use Standard_Disclaimer; function Message (Text: in Clever_Ideas) return Better_Ideas is...