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Y2K – why I know it was a real problem (2015)
It’s confession time. I was a Y2K test manager for IBM. As far as some people are concerned that means I was party to a huge scam that allowed IT companies to make billions out of spooking po…
An academic’s flawed perspective This quote from Anthony Finkelstein, professor of software systems engineering at University College London, on the BBC website, is typical of the critics’ reasoning. Working over a weekend I wrote a suite of SAS programs to crawl through the production libraries, schedules, datasets and access control records to establish all the dependencies, relationships and outputs. We were less concerned about the possibility of business critical systems crashing – we were confident we could stop that – than the very real danger that they would keep running but producing inaccurate financial output that might be hard to detect.
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