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

To: flatsville who wrote (6798)	7/20/1999 10:32:00 AM
From: Bald Eagle	Respond to of 9818

FWIW. I was talking to a friend yesterday who is a COBOL/NATURAL programmer at a local hospital She says that even though they are supposedly Y2K compliant already, she will have to be in her office at midnight of Dec 31at this year. I am also a programmer/database administrator, but have not been told anything like this yet.

To: flatsville who wrote (6798)	7/20/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: Technologyguy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

I find it really doubtful that you're better informed than I am on the economic or technology issues. (I am the Y2K director of a multi-billion dollar organization. I do find you all kind of amusing, though.) To answer your question, approximately 25% of the US economy is comprised of import and export. (Boeing's our biggest exporter.) But, the large majority of this trade is with the countries that are most likely to be best prepared for Y2K (at least compared to the developing world): Canada, the European nations, and Japan. It is not necessarily consequential for our economy if the Ukraine goes belly up. (Now, if as Ken predicts, nukes are launched against us, that's a different story...)