A friend is a consultant working with a certain company specializing in
software evolution, and now raking in the dough evolving software to be
Y2K compliant. I find their ideas interesting, and last year was
discussing with him the Y2K 'crisis', which I think is our own fault. We
discussed what might happen as companies fail, some due to a domino
effect in their supply chain (forego the Lotus jokes; you know what I
mean). We also talked about post-Y2K cleanup of the quick fixes to meet
the deadlines, and discussed the idea, now popularized by Yourdon, that
the demand for COBOLers is due to Y2K work, and the demand will
disappear thereafter. He then mentioned this area code requirement as
the next big job, and that we should have learned our lesson with ZIP+4.

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>From:  SIMPKINS, Terry[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Saturday, July 26, 1997 1:58 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       [HP3000-L] new "major disaster"
>
>From the SF Chronicle "Business" section, Saturday, July 26
>
>"As supply of area codes shrinks, more digits needed"
>..........  "experts at Bellcore expect that by the year 2031, all area
>codes will be exhausted"
>and then we'll have to increase the length of phone numbers,
>"that time frame may be optimistic,
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