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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8076)	8/18/1999 9:47:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Thanks for the link, CK; however, I had already read it and confirmed the comments far earlier with company CIOs as sources. Enough of a sampling of industrial America and Europe has walked me through their Y2K preparedness and contingency mirroring backup that I am satisfied that there will be glitches but that the horror stories are simply that--bogeymen to frighten children and great news fodder written by people who barely know how to boot up their PCs in the morning. And everyone knows that Asia, parts of South America, and parts of Africa are behind the curve and is planning around it--which will probably skew inventory numbers at the end of this year and early next. Just in passing--as a person who knows something about embedded systems--most of them are not year-sensitive.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8076)	8/18/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<Thanks Edwarda, here is the link: Gartner: Y2K victory at hand> computerworld.com CHEEKY, She already had the link. I posted it. [Thanks to Jeff Redman] techstocks.com I saw how delighted you and Jeff Redman were with the headline. You guys read "VICTORY" in the headline, and neglected to read the entire article, or any of the other related articles. Just thought I'd help "round out" the picture. So, I posted some of those other headlines that referred to the Gartner Report. No big deal. ======================================================= Y2K: Failures to Continue Throughout 2000 (Jo Pettitt, VNU Newswire ) webserv.vnunet.com Most Y2K Failures Due 4Q of Y2K - Gartner (Laura Randall, Yahoo! News/Newsbytes) asia.yahoo.com Y2K Plans May Be Short-Sighted, Report Says (Erich Luening, CNET News) news.com YEAR 2000 WIRE/GARTNER GROUP YEAR 2000 WORLD STATUS FACT SHEET (Business Wire) Failures in 1999 will be due to: [...] Failures in 2000 will be due to: [...] ...A complete cycle covering most transactions will take most of one full year to complete, so it will take one full year to uncover most code and data defects." ... cnnfntech.newsreal.com ======================================================= To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (1324) From: Jeff Redman Tuesday, Aug 17 1999 9:34PM ET Gartner: Y2K victory at hand computerworld.com To: Jeff Redman who wrote (1325) From: Cheeky Kid Tuesday, Aug 17 1999 11:50PM I don't believe my eyes! Cheryl P.S. I was just trying to be helpful.