ENTERPRISE COMPUTING | Beat the Clock
| Beat the Clock Make that a Whopper. Thomas Soeder, chairman of startup RMM Inc., thinks he has a tool for the times. Soeder's Columbia, Md., company, a relative latecomer to the year 2000 tools market, has a low-priced, mass-market programmer's workbench that he calls the software equivalent of Burger King.
| Beat the Clock Make that a Whopper. Thomas Soeder, chairman of Soeder hired Java programmers to write the year 2000 code assessment, remediation and He said the generalized Millennium Key workbench is suitable for any Parameter power. The tool harnesses what he termed the power of parameterization. Although the bridging and permanent windowing methods described in the documentation The bridging and windowing methods do, however, require permanent maintenance patches Soeder said two-digit-year dates beginning with Jan. 1, 2000, can be stored in a binary He insisted his methods of bridging and windowing will work because binary integers As a generalized programmers workbench, Millennium Key requires a knowledgeable Millennium Key, which has a full-function editor, performs variable delimited scans, Brackets and spaces. Space at the beginning and underscore at the end are what Programmers can run the Millennium Key workbench tool from any Java runtime-enabled RMMs partner company, the former ClarkNet now owned by Internet service provider Florence Olsen
startup RMM Inc., thinks he has a tool for the times. Soeders Columbia, Md.,
company, a relative latecomer to the year 2000 tools market, has a low-priced, mass-market
programmers workbench that he calls the software equivalent of Burger King.
validation workbench tool called Millennium Key. The $2,000 workbench, comprising
33,000 lines of Sun Microsystems Inc. Java code, is less automated than many earlier
workbench tools on the market, but Soeder called that a virtue.
languageCobol, Fortran, Dyal 280, C, C++, RPG, Clipper, dBaseand once
the parameters are set up for the language, you just need a junior programmer to
execute.
Millennium Key supports any method of fixing date code to prevent application errors or
failures on or after Jan. 1, 2000.
are not included, they are easy to implement, Soeder said. Neither method requires
programmers to alter existing application logic or legacy data, he said.
of three or four lines wherever date code could cause application errors or failure.
integer format without conflicting with ASCII- and EBCDIC-encoded dates ending in 00
through 99.
occupy a range of bit-level values not used by any possible combination of ASCII- or
EBCDIC-encoded two-decimal digits between 00 and 99.
programmer to set up the rules of each language the tool scans.
inclusive delimited scans and inclusive scans, Soeder said.
Dyal 280 uses. Cobol uses space, space. C++ is bracket, bracket. Thats what makes
this thing powerful, he said.
platform.
Verio Inc. of Denver, leases versions of Millennium Key for $249 per seat per month.
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