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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (534)7/26/1998 5:18:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 618
 
'If you've got one vendor who is
a crack evaluator of embedded systems, but does not have
the personnel to remediate the problem systems, perhaps it
makes sense to hire a second company for the remediation,
but provide enough work from site to site to keep the first
vendor busy for the next year.
...

After six months of their research, they sent out an RFP to
the vendors that they were still interested in. They will begin
their project in August, eight months after they recognized
that they had a problem. I'm sure that they have a greater
chance of success due to their initial investment in time, but
should they fail or encounter delays (as many project do) they
will have eight less months to fix the work.
...

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