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

To: John Hunt who wrote (8398)	8/25/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<Police & Fire Brigades at Risk in UK, Says Accounting Groupincluding nearly every police force and 40 per cent of fire brigades . The main difference between the UK reports and the equivalent US reports, is one of openness and honesty, not nationwide compliancy. How many days without police and electicity and 911 until mass looting and rioting begin? How many days without water until many fires start and spread uncontrollably city-wide? this is from the SCOTTISH DAILY RECORD (Aug. 18). * * * * * * * * * * MPs have warned that the UK faces Millennium chaos because the Year 2000 computer bug still hasn't been tackled. With just four months to the new year, the powerful Public Accounts Committee said crucial services, including nearly every police force and 40 per cent of fire brigades, faced bug problems. They urged the Government to name and shame organisations which were lagging behind. And in a report out today, the committee said the public should be told more about the threat in Britain and abroad. Committee chairman David Davis said: "It is a matter of concern that there is still much to be done to minimise the risks of material disruption to key services." Link: cnnfntech.newsreal.com.

To: John Hunt who wrote (8398)	8/26/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

State (Georgia): $378 million effort will beat Y2K bug, speed services << Georgia is spending three times more money than any other state in the Southeast not just to fix the Y2K problem, but to upgrade its aging state computer systems as well. The state expects to spend $378 million on repairing the Y2K computer glitch, with 65 percent of that also going toward modernizing its information infrastructure, said W. Michael Hale, Georgia's chief information officer. Other states have updated their equipment regularly. Tennessee, for example, is spending just $15.5 million to get its systems Y2K-ready because its oldest system is only 3 years old, Tennessee Chief Information Officer Bradley Dugger said. Gov. Roy Barnes said at a forum on the state's Y2K initiative in January that Georgia's efforts amount to "rebuilding the very infrastructure of our information economy." Many of the state's computer systems were developed in the 1970s and literally are antiques. "We started with an old architecture and that was unique to Georgia. The vendors [who installed the systems] weren't even able to fix the systems," Hale said. "That's why the price tag is so high." For example, more than 20,000 computers will be replaced statewide. "We see the investments in Y2K as being a good foundation for state technology," Hale said. Georgia has repaired about 83 percent of its Y2K problems so far , and even with the bulk of the work out of the way, the state is making sure it has the resources to handle any Y2K-related problems that may pop up. >> ... cont'd at ... amcity.com