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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion

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To: JBTFD who wrote (213)8/14/1999 4:29:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
D.C. Falls Behind on Y2K Fix, GAO Says
Key Agencies Miss Repair Deadlines


By Eric Lipton
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 13, 1999; Page B01

The District's late-starting year 2000 repair effort has fallen behind the tight schedule set to make sure city services do not fail on Jan. 1, a U.S. General Accounting Office official said yesterday.

The public works, personnel, employment services and procurement departments and the University of the District of Columbia have missed deadlines to make their computers Y2K-compliant, said Ronald L. Hess, assistant director of GAO's Governmentwide and Defense Information Systems Division. Several of these "priority one" departments and other D.C. agencies also are late in preparing manual backup plans that could be used if computer systems fail.

"Services are at risk," Hess said yesterday. . . .
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