Resumen
The article discusses the author's views on queries related to Y2K related problems, mainly from people with a nontechnical background. According to a study, the U.S. public rates its overall confidence in high tech companies more than seven times greater than its confidence in banks and churches. Many of the industry's dirty little secrets may be revealed. Especially those ones about high rates of cancelled and late IT projects, the abysmal level of software quality practices, the persistence of Y2K problems in many of the newest software and hardware offerings from supposedly the best and brightest companies and the bewildering ambiguity that clouds nearly every so called "year 2000 compliance and/or disclosure" statement. Notwithstanding the varying degrees of complicity by engineers, auditors, accountants, users, management and others, the simple fact remains that the code is broken and the code is the responsibility of the computing profession. The extent to which this broken code causes inconvenience and disruption will largely determine the degree to which the public's high opinion of the high tech industry will falter.