Project Success or "Non-Event"? What to Make of Year 2000

by Ed Yourdon

When the news media began pronouncing "victory" over the dreaded Year 2000 bug a few seconds after midnight last New Year's Eve, more than a few IT managers wondered if the celebration wasn't a bit premature. Nervously scanning monitors and control boards in their heavily secured Year 2000 bunkers, government officials and Fortune 500 CIOs nervously watched and waited to see whether embedded systems would explode, mainframes would shut down, databases would disappear in a metaphorical puff of smoke, or 10 million viruses would be unleashed (as the FBI had repeatedly warned) by a global gang of terrorists and hackers. By midday on 1 January, many IT managers were beginning to send their backup crews and troubleshooting teams home for a well-deserved rest.

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Project Success or "Non-Event"? What to Make of Year 2000 July 2000