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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8837)	9/29/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

>>>WHAT A STUPID IDEA!!!! The government wants the elderly and disabled to do their job, and prod healthcare providers to get them to work on remediating systems??? Yeah. Right.<<< It is, indeed, a sad day when GAO is relegated to recommending that little old ladies be asked to beg health care providers to be responsible about providing service into the new year. Nonetheless, if that is such a "STUPID IDEA," what would you have the government do instead? The only thing I can think of is to instead send the little old ladies a list of prepared and unprepared providers and suggest they switch over the next three months to someone who cares, an approach that carries its own set of problems. Karen

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8837)	9/29/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Russia Gazprom says 96 pct ready for Y2K MOSCOW, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Russian gas monopoly Gazprom said on Wednesday its computerised operations were 96 percent ready to face possible millennium bug problems. It said in a statement that the company would replace 5,500 computers out of 9,000 vulnerable to the year 2000 problem and modify the remaining stock. Gazprom, which is a major supplier of natural gas to the West, currently uses around 28,000 computers. Various international analysts have repeatedly expressed worries that Y2K could disrupt Russian gas supplies to the West. But Gazprom said it was paying special attention to guaranteeing uninterrupted supplies. "All transport and supply divisions have been recommended to create alert teams to fight anomalous situations and to guarantee immediate warning about them in the period between December 31, 1999 and January 4, 2000," it said. Gazprom discussed joint actions to combat the millennium bug at a conference on Tuesday and Wednesday with its partners and clients from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova. "We expect that as early as October all the parties involved will elaborate a joint plan for mobilising reserve capacities which will include a section on coordination of efforts with adjacent gas transportation companies," Gazprom said. REUTERS 1243 290999 GMT (no url--courtesy of South African Press Asso.) I wish this was a joke...