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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (155)3/6/1998 6:20:00 PM
From: John Mansfield   of 618
 
Auckland: 'The major lessons which must be learned from this preventable disaster...'

Auckland, 6 March 1998

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'Mercury - was Quicksilver, now Longblack - and the Y2K bug

by Ross Stewart

The story so far

To New Zealand's everlasting shame, we are now facing third world conditions which don't even occur in the third world. Auckland, New Zealand's largest city with around 1,000,000 highly educated souls, has a dying Central Business District.'

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'The major lessons which must be learned from this preventable disaster are that

1.all businesses and organisations need to take urgent steps to ensure that their own systems are robust, reliable and relocatable (even as far as another city or country), and protected against external failure (as in the present power crisis) or internal failure (as may happen with Y2K problems)

2.major suppliers and major customers need to be questioned very seriously along the same lines

3.SWOT analyses need to be undertaken to see what happens to your business when your major clients cease operating for a lengthy period (this is a factor causing major grief in Auckland at present)

4.very hard questions must be asked of and answered by, and more hard-nosed contracts now need to be put in place with, suppliers of essential services, such as power, water and sewage (including local and central government)

5.for those essential services (such as power) which a consumer has absolutely no alternative supplier, which is a major community responsibility, then local and central government need to re-take control and ensure the continuity of supply. '

year2000.co.nz
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