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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (249)	12/16/1997 11:10:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	of 411

*BUSINESS OWNERS, CEO'S, PROJECT MANAGERS Of Interest:* 12/16/97 ================================================================= Litigation: Behind the Year 2000 Myth: isa.org Some organizations, especially larger more complex ones, now realise that the problem is just too big to fix in the time available. Budgets have been drawn up by some organizations knowing that they will never be able to do all that work in time. Organisations are now advised to focus attention on the systems that support essential business processes. Message 2879662 Embedded systems turn up in everything from nuclear power stations to washing machines, and they can be vulnerable to the year 2000 date change. computerweekly.co.uk Triple hit on industry from embedded bug Manufacturing industry is only now beginning to realize the scale of the problem ..... Having even your most vital systems checked could prove difficult. Message 2881840 Operators of mission-critical embedded systems must perform a sort of gambler's triage." Message 2938935 Same problem in US: 75% of the UK manufacturing sector has no strategy to tackle the century date change problem. This is despite the fact that two-thirds have no guarantee that their systems are compliant, and that half the companies believe some of their equipment will fail on or before 1 January 1999. Message 2882025 More than 50 million embedded-system devices worldwide will exhibit year 2000 date anomalies in 1999 (WSJ) techstocks.com Embedded Systems & Real Time Problems techstocks.com There are probably unknown quantities of computers that have possibly no human interaction - these are the embedded processors techstocks.com JOINT POSITIONING STATEMENT: 10 National User Groups (inc New York) techstocks.com *Multitude of Links*

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