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

To: Ken who wrote (7055)	7/23/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

VERY interesting comments/articles by top Y2K experts-Lane C, Leon k,Harlan S: They are far grimmer than 'opinions' of those who are not Y2K experts: Interesting posts by Leon and Harlan and Lane at CPSR/WY2000: >Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:18:02 -0500 >From: "Leon A. Kappelman" <Kapp@unt.edu> >Subject: Re: #1 Things not well in "Y2K Land",despite federal government "Happy >Face"; Smith >In-reply-to: <001f01bed478$4463ae60$1c969bcf@harlansm> >To: WG - CPSR <cpsr-y2k@cpsr.org>, >Harlan Smith <hwsmith@cris.com> Harlan, hang in there. We'll be hearing from the front line geeks soon. SIM Y2K Working Group's study is now underway and it polls only y2k project managers. Already over 80 responses are in. This is the 4th year of the study which has tracked enterprises accounting for about about 1/8th of US GDP since 1996. '97 and '98 comparison report is available free in the "help for you" section at the WG's website (www.year2000.unt.edu). BTW, of the remaining 41 "high impact" federal systems still not completed, 27 are scheduled for a "happy landing in y2kcomplianceland" in December 99 or at some "unknown" date -- What I don't understand is why the media hasn't reported this and particularly since so many of these systems have the potential to impact local communities (e.g., air traffic control, food stamps, medicare, food safety inspections, unemployment insurance) -- Details at house.gov. Yeah, I know the feds say it's the 3rd parties that are behind, and that may well be true -- but no one will really care where it failed when the plane doesn't take off or the check doesn't arrive, they'll just know they're in trouble. Sure makes a strong case for local community preparedness (details at www.tma2000.org). Best wishes, Leon Leon A. Kappelman, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Business Computer Information Systems Associate Director, Center for Quality & Productivity College of Business Administration, University of North Texas Co-chair, Society for Information Management Y2K Working Group Steering Committee, YES Volunteer Corps (http://www.iy2kcc.org) Voice: 940-565-4698 Fax: 940-369-7623 Email: kapp@unt.edu Website: unt.edu ================================================================== On 22 Jul 99, at 15:27, Harlan Smith wrote: > Resent, with URL references. > > To get a feel for where we _really _are with Y2K remediation, I highly > recommend Lane Core's article! > > y2ktimebomb.com > > [snip] > More Observations on the June Y2K Experts Poll > > By E.L. Core July 22, 1999 elcore@sgi.net >