Russia & Y2K cbn.org
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One man who knows the extent of the problem as well as any other is Vivek Wadhwa, the CEO of Relativity Technologies, the Cary, North Carolina company that sold the Russian government the software to fix its Y2K problem. "There are, I think, about 4-thousand mainframes in Russia. All of those mainframes have a year 2000 problem, without exception. The Y2K problem, from a technical point of view, is probably more intense in Russia than it is here, because in addition to having the American hardware and American computer languages, they also have Russian hardware, and languages that are not used in the west anymore. Ours is probably the only technology in the world that can take a legacy, on old computer system, and turn it into a modern computer system that runs in the e-commerce world. We can actually take an old mainframe system and have it run on the Internet. So we have some unique facilities in our technology that they badly need there."
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