"As web developers, our main point of liaison with clients is often through the company's IT people. Most of these key people were wholly unavailable for several weeks over the holiday period. They were on duty over the Millenium and naturally they also took leave before or after the key date. This held up all the sites on which we were working for about 3 weeks. Otherwise, it all went perfectly smoothly. The flu epidemic, OTOH.... now that *was* a Milliennium bug. "

"The bug did have an effect on our business as it stopped a lot of Americans visiting Europe as they wanted to be at home in case anything happened."

"The only problem that occured was fixable via D.O.S and hence of little operational consequence.Had we not prepared for it the consequences would have been severe both financially and operationally."

"The Millennium Bug was overhyped but not non existent which the media seems to take delight in spreading currently. We did experience some minor problems once actually in the new year and there are still problems emerging, particularly with transaction based systems."

"What really irritated me was the article in The Times where a journalist tried to claim that there was no such thing as the Millenium Bug, and he got paid to write that!"

"Our problems were limited to one small Java Applet, but from what we've seen elsewhere, the bug was by no means eradicated. All sorts of professionals & organisations who should have known better have been finding problems with email, servers, etc, etc."

"Yes the bug did have an effect on our business - it and all the attention to it, hightened our awareness to a slow and snaky slothfulness that had crept into our planning and survival mechanisms for our business. Believe me, it pulled us up sharply! Having availed ourselves of the training and support that was made available for small companies such as ours we experienced no adverse effects from the bug which, if I read your question correctly, is what you want to know. However, the attention to our systems etc etc has made us more prepared for the future and has increased our confidence in some of our suppliers and enhanced some of our relationships which certain of our key customers - much more team orientated "singing from the same hymn sheet" attitude. We now have in place a review proccess which was lacking before. Who said grey clouds don't have silver linings! That said, we are not complacent - it is not over yet.................."

"The low disruption is a tribute to the effort spent beforehand planninng, correcting and replacing"

"You can't please the media I think a lot of people worked extremely hard to make sure the bug didn't bite."

"As the general hype was that the bug may have a major fact, I felt obliged as a one man ban to take relevant precautions"

"The fact that there was so little problems, vindicates the money spent on preperation."

"I think the fears and anxieties generated by the press about the imminent collapse of the world system were over hyped and that the consequences predicted failed to materialise. Even if they had, I think they would have been much more manageable than was forecast."

"It's funny how the people who created much of the hype before the event are now the same people telling us it was a waste of time and money and over hyped! It is of course the media I'm refering to - they created most of the scare stories before the event that had people who did not understand the technology worried. The govenerment did a good job of dispelling some of the hype by publishing their booklet which showed the reality of the situation and possible impact. Now that things seem to have gone quite smoothly after all the media accuse everyone else of building up the problem too much and the government of wasting money on the project! Perhaps if the media had not published so many inaccurate, and ill thought out scare stories before the event, the government would not have had to spend so much money reasuring people!!"

"The time and investment in avoiding the problem was well worth it, as the problem was avioded"

"It ain't over yet. Companies need to continue to be vigilant to avoid any disruption"

"There is still the possibility of millennium bug problems occurring"

"I think it was all a total con by the computer industry and ignorant politicians. All my computers were fine - even the old ones I did nothing to. I don't believe it was money well spent by anybody, since countries who did nothing survived as well as we did."

"What about those countries that did little or nothing about the millennium bug? Are they any worse off? In short, the answer is no. I now await to see how all those so-called "Y2K gurus" will desperately re-invent themselves and leap onto the next hyped IT bandwagon. After all, they have to earn a living somehow."

"With hindsight it's easy to say we overreacted. Mind you, I'll be happier when January's wages have gone through Ok..."

"*Apart from filling in damn-fool questionaires which probably wasted 100+ hours"