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To: Bill Martin who wrote (5643)4/18/1999 8:09:00 AM
From: Carolyn1  Read Replies (2) of 17183
 
Just had our Y2K IT meeting we are testing software that uses a specific date input by the student to see if we need to buy new software for the Winter 2000 term. We are also installing the Windows 95 patch and the office 97 service packs. Our fiscal year starts July 1999 and we will be buying a lot of new computers with Windows 95 to replace our old 486's. We will be switching to Windows 2000 as soon as we feel Microsoft has cleaned up the bugs. We will be upgrading Novell Groupwise to 5.2 as 4.1 doesn't hold the timestamp. So as you can see colleges and universities can't wait till year 2000 to purchase new software, computers or storage as they won't be able to teach the classes that require date input. I can't understand why a company would wait until their systems don't work properly and lose business and then update. Our AS400 people are changing all dates in COBL and maintaining two complete databases one with the date change and one for 1999 all changes made to the 1999 database are also made to the Y2K database. The databases will be switched at start of Y2k. We are also going to use a cloud formation for routing so if one campus goes down it won't effect another campus all the data will be rerouted.
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