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To: Christine Traut who wrote (9191)	11/20/1999 9:26:00 PM
From: David Eddy	of 9818

Christine - For what it is worth, IBM is the only technology company (outside of the telco suppliers like Lucent and Nortel) that has taken Y2K dead seriously. They had all of their internal stuff (including elevators) checked and remediated a year ago. And they have tried hard to work with customers to update software - in contrast to Microsoft. I, for one, give them credit for that. Correct. IBM took Y2K very seriously from the very start... in stark contrast to MightySoft that just blew Y2K off as a dumb ol' mainframe issue. One ex IBM SE told me that IBM sent his old account a list of several thousand products IBM had sold into the account over the years. The list said what was Y2Kok, what could be upgraded & what wasn't going to be fixed. So the customers have had plenty of warning & attention from IBM. Unfortunately the situation isn't that simple on the desktop. Desktop applications will use a Microsoft operating system, a Borland database engine, and language product from a third vendor & then write the application themselves and sell it indirectly thru catalogs & retail stores. How's a customer to know who's responsible for what? Tough problem... and that's if you admit you may have a problem. - David

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