It wasn't only about dates, it was also about memory allocation. The dates had to be

solved, obviously, but if it was done sloppily you'd most likely end up with a buffer over-run, the software would simply crash and in those days most likely crash your operating system at the same time.

Of course some of the big consultancy companies made a lot of money but they do that with everything, and prey on large organisations with large budgets and little knowledge of IT.

I was working for a large (in the Benelux at least) software company, so we fixed our own Y2K issue as most did. I was a developer who took on the PM role and it was huge. Then shortly after we also had the Euro project which was a similar challenge (we built financial software).

If it happened now, it would be a much bigger cash cow (as Brexit will be for example) because even smaller IT companies outsource all their development, and even worse outsource it to companies staffing with junior employees without much knowledge of the business industry for which they are acting as consultants.

Brexit is going to make those companies billions. I think we are thinking of the same ones - Accenture, McKinsey, etc. They exist by talking s**t and convincing large organisations to get locked in to their solutions.

Posted By: Steve in Holland, Feb 26, 14:54:14