Why you can't trust what you read. Fall in the Commonwealth of Virginia is a time of falling leaves, cooling temperatures, and revenue projections on the way to biennial budget preparations, at least in odd-numbered years. This year isn't different in that respect, and one of the budget issues likely to get serious attention in the General Assembly session soon after the turn of the new year will be funding to address the state's Year 2000-related computing issues.
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Others have stable systems of reasonably current vintage, and repairs to the programming code seem to be the prudent answer. In these circumstances, the answer is not clear-cut. For U.Va., the decision focused on whether or not we were prepared to simply replace applications to solve the Year 2000 problem. The University decided that the reason for a wholesale replacement of business applications should not be the Year 2000 one alone. That long but valuable process does not leave enough time to solve the Year 2000 problem through replacement of our major business applications.