How to Trust, and Verify, Y2K Work.(Industry Trend or Event)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  April, 1999  by McKendrick, Joseph

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Many corporate organizations are finding that efforts to prepare their legacy software for the Y2K systems problem are creating difficulties at the source code level, as bugs appear in remediated code libraries. Experts calculate the total additional tab to U.S. companies may be in the neighborhood of $98 billion to $188 billion -- about 31 percent of the money already spent on Y2K renovation projects. Even among well-managed companies the defect rate, according to Software Productivity Research, is about one defect per 144 lines of COBOL fixed for the Y2K problem.

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