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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues

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To: flatsville who wrote (8844)9/30/1999 10:43:00 AM
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A two parter on y2k and Japan--The World's second biggest economy.

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wired.com

Japan Pays for Blas‚ Y2K Plans
by Debbi Gardiner

3:00 a.m. 29.Sep.99.PDT

With four months to go to Y2K, some Japanese government officials are in a near panic after months -- years -- of apathy.

The core infrastructures seem ready to confront the millennium bug, but they're beginning to realize this may not be quite enough.

Last week, the Economist pointed out that despite being the world's second-largest industrial economy, Japan lags in Y2K preparedness behind, among others, Thailand and Chile.

As a result, a number of Western tech workers are predicting chaos. Others are tsk-tsking that the compliance tests should all have been conducted months earlier...

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