E-MailOctober 1998 Cutter IT Journal -- Year 2000
The Year 2000 phenomenon continues to be a schizophrenic one for the IT industry, if not for society as a whole. While more and more mainstream politicians, business leaders, and media journals describe the "millennium bug" as potentially devastating, the majority of citizens and small business owners blithely ignore the possibility that it may disrupt their lives in a mere 15 months. And while 25% of the IT professionals work feverishly to repair mainframes, PCs, and embedded systems, the other 75% act as if the problem didn't exist. The October 1998 issue of Software Development magazine, for example, contains 80 pages of excellent discussions of application development tools and methods, but only a single reference to "the Y2000 distraction," buried in the middle of an article about Java.
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