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Solving the Year 2000 Problem

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I agree with the reviews that mentioned that this book is simple and that it contains good anecdotes for presentations. But it is simple to a fault: when he actually starts trying to provide solutions like his "bridge program" on p170, most of them have terrible errors ("IF this two digit number is greater than 99, THEN...", etc). I recommend Ulrich and Hayes "The Year 2000 Software Crisis" instead.

As a Y2K professional, I had high hopes for this book - it was the first 'mass market' book that I had run across regarding the Year 2000 dilema. After reading nearly 100 pages of little but potential horror stories for January 1, 2000, I had no more Y2K project management insight than I could get (for free) from Peter DeJager's home page, www.year2000.com. I was, however, siezed by the urge to immediately clean out all of my bank accounts and hunker down in a remote wilderness cabin with a manual can opener (no damn computer chips in an electric can opener standing between me and my spagettio's) and my Y2K compliant shotgun.

"Solving the Year 2000 Problem" presents a plethora of fodder for marketing presentations. Anyone in the Y2K seminar business should be buying caseloads of this book and passing them out as freebies to potential clients. But don't be tempted to buy this book on the basis of constructing a Y2K project. It doesn't quite cut the mustard in that regard.

I would recommend the following book as a primer for Y2K project management:

"The Year 2000 Software Crisis: Challenge of the Century", by Wm. M. Ulrich and Ian S. Hayes, published by Yourden Press Computing Series.

I don't think there is any book that can match this in simplicity, clarity and professionalism. Jim keogh is the best writer on the subject.