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

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To: John Mansfield who wrote (533)	7/29/1998 3:43:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) of 618

'Automakers prep for year 2000 Bob Wallace Looks like a year 2000 convoy. An auto industry task force working to address the year 2000 issue recently expanded its core membership beyond the Big Three automakers to include Toyota Motor Corp. and Volvo AB, with several largeEuropean automakers joining in the procession. The Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) also has extended its efforts to include finance, utility and health care companies that serve the organization's 1,400 carmakers and suppliers. AIAG last fall began to mass-mail year 2000 self-assessment surveys to suppliers, a program that European automakers BMW, Daimler-Benz AG, Porsche, Renault and Volkswagen AG recently have adopted. But charter members of the effort said there is a lot of work to do on the road to year 2000 readiness. About half of General Motors Corp.'s most critical suppliers have returned the AIAG's self-assessment surveys, said Robert Booth, executive director of worldwide purchasing at the company. But the responses show 15% to 25% "present major concerns about supplier readiness." ... computerworld.com

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