UK is MUCH more open and pro-active on Y2K that US Government
Lot to learn here. Same thing is happening to us NOW.
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Date change fears come home to Blair By Ian Mitchell
computerweekly.co.uk
Top IT users met Tony Blair's policy unit in Downing Street on Tuesday in an attempt to get the prime minister personally involved in tackling the year 2000 problem.
The move comes as report after report concludes the year 2000 problem is larger than previously thought and preparations are inadequate. Last week the Gartner Group estimated 40% of key public sector systems will fail, while the previous week a Cap Gemini report said that demand for year 2000 resources will outstrip supply in April 1998 - the deadline for government departments to finalise their action plans.
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Bomb has insurers diving for cover
computerweekly.co.uk
The insurance industry took steps to protect itself from claims arising from the millennium bomb this week, two months after Computer Weekly forecast the move. The Association of British Insurers has drafted exclusion clauses designed to protect insurance companies from date bug claims that could amount to billions. The clauses are now set to be introduced into policies immediately.
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Year2000 - Management Briefing
itrain.co.uk
The Year2000 Management Briefing is a clear and concise year 2000 awareness training system. This technology based training system, which runs on any Windows PC, is a 90 minute overview of the main issues and problems faced by all management and technical staff tasked with addressing the year 2000 problem.
Our research suggests that year 2000 project staff are still finding it difficult to get across the scale and complexity of thee millennium problem to senior management and to secure realistic budgets for the work. This briefing is designed to help overcome these problems.
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Hewlett-Packard rings in the changes with BT computerweekly.co.uk
British Telecom is undertaking a 15m pound overhaul of its directory services system, replacing the search engine to make it millenium-compliant and to slash response times.
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Tory in action leaves firms on the abyss
computerweekly.co.uk
Former Tory IT minister Ian Taylor has warned that his party's failure to prepare business for European monetary union and the
millennium timebomb could ruin thousands of UK businesses.
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Rival year 2000 testing bodies fall out over PCs
computerweekly.co.uk
How far do you go to make a PC year 2000 compliant? The issue has led to a dispute between rival millennium testing organisations. Prove It 2000, set up this summer, claims most PCs are not year 2000 compliant since any application that accesses the date and time from the real-time clock will not recognise the century date change.
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Tax system changes to go ahead despite millennium
computerweekly.co.uk
The Inland Revenue will not defer or delay any major IT development required for new tax legislation to free resources for its year 2000 project.
"There are a number of major developments in hand and year 2000 is not displacing any government [tax] initiatives," said Roy Massingale, deputy director of business management services at the Inland Revenue, and sponsor of the Revenue's millennium project.
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Procurement straitjacket condemned
computerweekly.co.uk
Labour must scrap public procurement rules or risk being unable to get help to solve its millennium problems, Cap Gemini has warned. Jacky Olivier, head of year 2000 at the services firm, said, "Given the time and resource constraints, we wouldn't look favourably on the opportunity to tender for government year 2000 work."
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New body to put rail network on track for date compliance
computerweekly.co.uk
Railtrack will announce the establishment of a cross-industry body next week to mastermind the rail network's year 2000 programme.
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Whitehall bug fix plans in disarray
computerweekly.co.uk
Government plans for dealing with the millennium computer bomb are in chaos, with departments seriously behind schedule in their attempts to tackle it. According to parliamentary written answers obtained by Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Malcolm Bruce, only three out of 16 departments met the National Audit Office target date of January for producing year 2000 compliance audits.
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Britain: Ministries miss own computer 'bomb' deadline
ft.com
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12 1997 By George Parker, Political Correspondent
The government has missed its own deadlines for tackling the millenium computer bomb problem, it was revealed yesterday. b>Seven government departments out of 16 have failed to complete costed action plans to tackle the problem. They have failed even though they were due to finish the work by October 1 - a deadline agreed with the National Audit Office, the government spending watchdog.
Among those government departments facing the largest bills for reprogramming their computers are health and defence.
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Desktop conversions could cost up to 26bn pounds
computerweekly.co.uk
The global cost of making end-user-developed applications year 2000 compliant could be $42bn (26bn pounds), according to Gartner Group estimates. And, by the end of 1997, more than 80% of companies will have end-users who inadvertently leave their computer set in 2000 when testing it, the consultancy predicts.
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