As all of the articles in this month's issue of the Cutter IT Journal strongly suggest, it would be a tragedy if we allow Year 2000 to disappear from conscious memory without a formal postmortem to document both the successes and failures of our efforts. This might not be so important if we were talking about one Year 2000 project, or one company, or even one country, such as the United States. But it was an effort that consumed literally millions of person-hours of effort in tens of thousands of companies all over the world, and as I point out in the opening article of this issue, it was an effort that consumed over $100 billion before we ran out of time on 31 December 1999. Isn't anyone curious to see what happened to that $100 billion, and what lessons can be learned from the expenditure?