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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (6012)	6/14/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

In a recent seminar on Y2K preparedness procedures held by the Building Owners and Managers Association of Chicago, Casties told an overflow crowd about one incident in which a group managed to lock themselves inside a Chicago bank while they were running a systems check. The group was testing an integrated bundle of four systems -- card access, door lock, alarm and video surveillance. All had been certified Y2K-ready, but it turned out that two different Y2K compliance software packages had been used to update them, and those two systems weren't compatible. "When they rolled the clock (ahead to 2000) on the integrated systems, all of them failed and all the doors locked up. They had to open them manually and they had done a backup plan for that. But they were so surprised when it failed," she said. In another case, building managers installed a new fire-safety system and disconnected the link to the external alarm monitoring company to run their Y2K test. But they didn't realize there was still an old computer tie-in to the lighting and air systems that linked up to the monitoring station. "It was a disaster," said Casties. "The alarms went off to the fire department." Casties added that she was told by a vendor that in a different building the test crew group decided to be extra thorough and check dates past the year 2030. What they didn't realize was that they went past the termination date of the software license. "The whole system failed, and they couldn't get it back up and running," she said. chicagotribune.com Cheryl