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To: Tomsr who wrote (43881)	10/9/1999 4:45:00 PM
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Study: 50% of major firms plan Y2K system freezes By Thomas Hoffman idg.net Half of the companies responding to a recent survey indicated that they are imposing a year 2000 "freeze" on installing new systems or enhancing old ones. The study of 96 companies was conducted by Cutter Consortium, a research firm in Arlington, Mass. According to Ed Yourdon, chairman of Cutter Consortium, half of the firms polled have already imposed an enterprisewide lockdown or are planning to begin one soon that will carry through year's end. The purpose is to keep corporate computer environments year-2000-ready by not introducing any changes to existing software code or hardware. Another 36% weren't planning to impose a systems freeze, while 15% of respondents said they were unsure of their plans. Firms in the study had an average IT budget of $38.2 million and IT staff of 816 people.