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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem
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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (340)5/1/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (2) of 618
 
Increased focus on utilities, telecom: NRF

' Gaps in year 2000 testing -- or no audits at all -- create the potential for system
failures. And that risk spurred a National Retail Federation (NRF) official to
issue a warning earlier this week about possible power outages, dead phone lines
and banks that can't process employee payroll. He made the comments during a
session held at the NRF's Supply Chain & Operations Management Conference
in Austin, Texas.

Washington-based NRF bills itself as the world's largest retail trade association;
Donald M. Gilbert, its senior vice president of information technology, is acting
as the retail industry's year 2000 early-warning system. He and his staff are
tracking year 2000 preparations among industries and agencies that support
retailers, including the electrical, telecommunications and banking industries;
local port authorities; and the U.S. Customs office. . . .

Regarding the telecommunications industry, Gilbert told the panel that his
research found that local exchange carriers aren't conducting "interoperability or
interaction testing" with long-distance carriers, Internet service providers,
competitive access providers or other telecommunications networks. . . .

Gilbert said that electric utilities don't plan to conduct a nationwide test of the
U.S. electric grid, and that raises the risk of failure, particularly for rural electric
cooperatives. The NRF wants to find out where outages are likely to occur, so
that members can plan ahead for potential problems.

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