[16703] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Re (2): Core router bakeoff?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Butler)
Fri May 8 21:36:31 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 16:36:21 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: John Butler <jbutler@digisle.net>
Cc: Eric Germann <ekgermann@CCTEC.COM>, perry@piermont.com,
agirsch@OASysGroup.com (Arnaud Girsch), nanog@merit.edu,
jkucic@kpmg.com
In-Reply-To: <00030F0C.CE21037@kpmg.com>
This is 100% correct. Many firms are starting to require that vendors, consultants, etc. have "Y2K Compliancy Guarantees" in their contracts and will not do business without them. The penalties can be high...
At 07:22 PM 5/8/98 -0400, jkucic@kpmg.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Eric Germann <<ekgermann@CCTEC.COM>,Internet writes:
>
>>Do we really care if an unmanaged hub is Y2K compliant? As long as it
>>forwards packets....
>
>I don't but its an opportunity to sell the client. And if you don't test it I
>recommend you don't get quoted saying it doesn't matter unless you want a
>lawsuit if anything happens.
>
>Customers want everything in writing to be Year 200 compliant or not having any
>affect on their operation and in many cases regulators are mandating it in
>writing.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joe Kucic
>
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