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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (266)	8/15/1999 10:50:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 662

Ron, What a shame. This should have started last year. Too late for many of these small to mid-size businesses (<1,000 employees), who haven't already started. Y2K: 1,000 MANUFACTURERS MAY FACE CLOSURE New Jersey MEP has partnered with New Jersey's higher education community, including its nineteen (19) county colleges and the Department of Labor in order to reach a larger number of manufacturers. We will be hosting seminars and on-site assistance to aid New Jersey's 13,000 manufacturers. At no cost, the New Jersey MEP will provide a Y2K Self Help Tool, up to four hours of on-site training, and a compliance check on one of your Mission Critical Systems. The training that will be provided by the county colleges and higher education community, will assist you in selecting a Mission Critical System and show you how to use the Y2K Self Help tool to conduct an inventory of the devices in this system. Once the inventory is completed, the list will be submitted to TAVA Technologies' national database, that is comprised of over 110,000 devices, to determine which devices are Y2K compliant, non-compliant or suspect. For further information call 800.MEP.4MFG or contact us by email at bhaumann@njmep.org. njmep.org ================================================= I always suspected that something like this would happen. I knew in my heart that at the end ... as Jan 1 was fast approaching, that something like this would be necessary. And, that TAVA would be sharing their database free of charge for smaller companies. This thing is just too hard for most to figure out on their own. Fortune 500 companies have been helping out key suppliers ... financing the fix ... and sending in their own people to supervise Y2K remediation. But others have been left on their own, with limited resources and manpower. Our nation, and our economy, sits on the shoulders of thousands of these small and mid-size businesses - not only Fortune 500, Fortune 1000 and their key suppliers. So many forget. So many of these small and mid-size business still haven't worked on Y2K remediation. SBA made $500 million available in February to small and mid-size (<1,000 employees), with extremely good terms. Practically giving it away. CNBC had a segment about 3 weeks ago ... "The government wants to give money away and no one will take it." Of this $500 million ... they had only takers for $2.4 million. SIGH. Unfortunately, many of these business owners view Y2K as a 3-day "bump-in-the-road, and are planning on fixing-on-failure. Which will be too late. That's why I get angry at the way this has been handled by our government and the media. This re-assurance to avoid panic ... has worked too well with many business owners. And, they're doing nothing. Cheryl 138 Days until 2000