It’s confession time. I was a Y2K test manager for IBM. As far as some people are concerned that means I was party to a huge scam that allowed IT companies to make billions out of spooking poor deluded politicians and the public at large. However, my role in Y2K means I know what I am talking about, so when I saw some recent comment that it was all nothing more than hype I felt the need to set down my first hand experience. At the time, and in the immediate aftermath of Y2K, we were constrained ...