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

To: Ken who wrote (7302)	7/27/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<Mutlinational firms warn computers aren't Y2KAPUTYOU-ready!!>>> Let's see here...first promised to be compliant by last Dec 31, then March, then July, then Oct, then y2kready replaced compliant! Now, y2k ready by July, 2000? or Dec, 2000, or 2001 or 2002 or when? Anyone need toothpaste, tampoons, razors, light bulbs, computer hardware, clothes, bags, asswipe, matches, pet food, shoes, cigarettes, soap, etc., next year???? The tag "Made in America", will become a collector's item! The tag "Made in Korea" (or China, or Taiwan, or Germany) will become a collector's item! If you have any dairies of your ancestors relating how they lived, read them- the most instructional ones would be pre 1850. If you have none, read Mark Twain's books. Then go further back in time about 30 years to eliminate a lot of the products they had in his time. Better yet, read pre-revolutionary books, like maybe from around the 1500s! Actually, that might not be far back enough either- at least they were able to buy tea, coffee, horses, horse-drawn carraiges, guns, ammo, food.... Someone else pick a more accurate date to reflect the reality of the new world of 2000! >>>>>> SOME MAJOR FIRMS WARN COMPUTERS AREN'T Y2K-READY > Close to one in 10 large multinational companies will not achieve > Y2K compliance by January 1, according to a survey by CIO > Communications. The group reports that 33 percent of the firms > participating in the survey answered that they were behind > schedule, while another 8 percent said they would not finish > their Y2K preparations by the turn of the millennium. Many top > global corporations reported that although they had finished Y2K > compliance efforts on their own systems, they anticipated > problems due to disruptions from foreign suppliers, particularly > in developing nations. The report found that while multinational > corporations can exert influence on domestic trading partners, > overseas partners, particularly government-owned > telecommunications and electrical utilities in large countries, > are largely immune to threats by the corporations. > (Wall Street Journal 07/26/99)