Organizations would not pay for it if they could hire the people. So, we have to go into 2000 hoping for the best. This posting is from David Hall, who keeps sounding the alarm on the embedded chip problem. Well, it's a nice hypothetical figure, comparable to estimating the number of angels that can dance on the point of a needle. But that medieval academic exercise was really a debate over the corporeality of angels.
Defective chips are corporeal.
The debate over the number of noncompliant chips and their replacament is a debate over how many people, two months after the defective chips fail, will still be corporeal. Every embedded sytems test that I am aware of has verified the assumption that each embedded system or piece of equipment MUST be treated as a unique system. Even the same models of equipment react to Year 2000 dates differently. Think about the hardware involved. Cs, motherboards, BIOS, etc.