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And yet we mitigated y2k. All with publicly traded companies. The reward was simply being open for business on 1/1/2001 without slipping a beat. Sometimes I t
by scruffyherder 5y ago
And yet we mitigated y2k. All with publicly traded companies. The reward was simply being open for business on 1/1/2001 without slipping a beat.
Sometimes I think as an industry we hyped too much and over delivered giving the impression that it was no big deal.
- ziml77 5y agoThe difference is that we knew that the Y2K bug was coming. It was a given that we were going to end up reaching 1/1/2000. Here, it's not a given that backups will ever need to be touched. Spending a lot of money to fix something that is known will happen is easy to justify. If you don't do it, you will end up losing significant amounts of money. For something that isn't guaranteed to happen, it's harder to justify putting a lot of money into it. What is the value of doing thorough testing of backups if they're never actually accessed? One could argue that it's purely a waste of money.
- hutzlibu 5y ago"One could argue that it's purely a waste of money. " A counterargument would be just any of the frequent news articles about company X having to pay Y millions or lost such and such money.
- mypalmike 5y ago* 1/1/2000
- bluGill 5y agoActually 3 dates, that was one. 2000 was a leap year and lots of systems got that wrong. 9/9/1999 was sometimes used as a can't happen date as well.