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To: David Eddy who wrote (9176)	11/20/1999 7:21:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) of 9818

David: Thanks for the reminder and URL to your latest MSFT column. I am in total agreement. We'll ignore (isn't technology great) the peanut gallery. I ran a little seminar for my local Citibanker a month back on how small businesses could prepare for Y2K. I had a really good plan, simple, direct, no more than a few hours of on-line work. I wasn't really surprised when very few people showed up. After all, if Bill Gates isn't concerned, why should anyone else be? Most American small businesses will have done nothing prior to 01/01/00. On your Microsoft point, one of the first conversations I had on Y2K was with an old friend who is an incredible Microsoft source. This was in the spring of 1998. I quipped that Y2K might be able to do more damage to Microsoft than the Department of Justice. (historical note: not so far.) He smiled wanly and nodded. Then told me that Microsoft was very, very worried about lawsuits and bad press over Y2K. They thought that they would be the 'poster child' for all PC problems, even though they sold very few of the application programs. So someone at Microsoft agrees with you. :) Christine

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