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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (128)2/25/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 618
 
UK: Utilities set up bug safety net

Utility companies have set up a war cabinet to co-ordinate their contingency plans to get the UK through the millennium crisis. The companies, which are battling round the clock to make their systems compliant, are developing back-up plans to ensure vital services are not cut during the date change.

Setting up the committee, which comprises representatives from across the utilities, is an acknowledgement that they may fail to make all their systems year 2000 compliant, and that contingency plans need to be made. "This is the next big issue that needs to be addressed," said Martin Jollies, year 2000 programme manager for Nuclear Electric, and chairman of the committee, which is holding its inaugural meeting next month.

"Last year was all about getting your compliance programme in place, which most people have well under way," he added. "Now people have to focus on what their contingency plans will be." The committee will hold a series of meetings this year to decide on best practice for tackling contingency issues.

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Utilities have already begun to look at contingency plans for the century date change. London Electricity is re-instating old telephone lines and laying new ones through its ducts in case the telephone network should fail, to make sure engineers can stay in touch.

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Nuclear Electric is also reducing all non-essential IT activities between December 1999 and February 2000. "There's no point in doing something you don't have to do when the clocks turn over," said Jollies.

computerweekly.co.uk
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