You said -- "Coproations are now putting to good use the computers they bought due to the Y2K panic."
I remember that my Macintosh didn't have to worry about the Y2K issue, since it was a different operating system and didn't have that date rollover problem.
At least I knew that I would have my computer working -- for a few hours, anyway -- until the electrical grid went down... :-)
Regards,
Star Traveler
Might be true in few companys but in general any manchine bought in Y2K is very obsolete.
Doe'nt mean they're not still running but anybody who thinks corporate america has'nt been buying lots of machines over the last 5+ years has'nt been paying attention.
Somebody powerfull wants to dump some stock and got a story written.
Wow where to start with this article. First elements of the Y2K scare were legit, not the panic that the world was going to shut down that was silly, but the announcement that quite large amount of then current software and computer systems needed to be either replaced ot fixed to avoid problems was legit.
Second it wasn't rapaciously greedy computer companies that were pushing it, if there was anybody rapacious and greedy pushing it that would be the disaster people getting people to buy generators and canned foods in case society as a whole stopped. The computer companies (and really mostly software companies) were pushing legitimate fixes to a legitimate problem.
Third corporations weren't buying all these computers (and software, really software got the biggest push not hardware) to be ready for the big breakdown of the milenium, they were buying it to AVOID the big breakdown. Those purchases are why there wasn't a breakdown. Now in hardware there tended to be upgrades that might have given the companies more computing power than they needed, but that's what happens when you replace a 20 year older server farm that can't handle Y2K with a new server farm that can, you're going to get a 20 year jump in computing power.
BS.
I've worked in the industry for almost 15 years and I can say with absolute certanty that the Y2K "scare" was far from simply a scare. The reason why nothing happened is precicely because these "greedy, bad, capitalists" had everyone upgrade. If nothing was done it very well could've been a disaster. Not "your microwave won't work" disasterous, but quite possibly large amounts of financial data would've been gone forever.
Needless to say, I stopped reading shortly after that phrase. The author loses all credibility from that point on.
Bologna. The computers that were purchased in Y2K are fully depreciated, six years old, off maintenance, off warranty, too slow and small to run 2K6 software. Companies don't put boat anchors to work running strategic apps. A goober wrote this article.
I'm cleaning the kids' closets (engineers, left long ago) and have boxes of programs and programming language packs, discs, cable, computer parts, chips, electronics, a CRT of all things, bits and pieces of frames they used to build computers, and
all of it is obsolete and will get get pitched or recycled.
(and yes, I did ask them. I still hear about my mother pitching my brother's baseball trading cards...)
That's a complete load of crap. Any computers bought almost 7 years ago are obsolete for any high speed applications and will be replaced now or in the near future.
What as doorstops?
You must not be in IT or know anything about IT.
Corporations that are virtualizing are buying brand new, uber-powerful hardware systems and running multiple instances of operating systems on these servers.
The systems purchased from 1997-1999 are very, very, very obsolete right now and can barely run Windows 2000, which is nearing end of support from Microsoft.
Yeah, a 1999 computer will put any business on the fast track.... to no where.