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Allo!
Just found the following:
IT Metrics Strategies from Cutter Information Corp.
http://www.cutter.com
International Year-2000 Repair Effort for 30 Countries
by Capers Jones May 1997 Vol III, no 5
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Year-2000 Topic                      Global Year-2000 Costs
Initial software repairs               $530,000,000,000
Secondary bad fixes software repairs     50,000,000,000
Test library repairs                     75,000,000,000
Database repairs                        454,000,000,000
Hardware chip replacements               76,000,000,000
Hardware performance upgrades           150,000,000,000
Litigation and damages                  300,000,000,000
World total                          $1,635,000,000,000
   Figure 14 - Year-2000 worldwide summary.
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Not only is the year-2000 problem one of the most expensive problems in human 
history, it is also one of the most embarassing. This problem has been 
theoretically discussed for more than 25 years,and its signifiance has been 
hypothesized with incresing alarm for more than 10 years. It is not a credit 
to the human race nor to the software industry that such an obvious problem 
with such a straightforward technical solution should reach the magnitude 
that is likely to occur.
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 Are you part of the problem, or part of the solution?
Appreciate
Gilles
--- Maximus 3.01
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