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To: GVTucker who wrote (98786)	2/11/2000 4:32:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

GV, >>Remember, Gartner was one of the greater alarmists of Y2K. And back then, I thought that was customer fishing also<< That's opposite of what I saw. As early as New Years Day 1999, I posted a recap here of a Gartner consultant's opinions on the subject, in a sort of debate with a Yardeni disciple. This was from a CNBC show. The Gartner person was at least sane about the subject, although he said he expected some problems (maybe we all did) in rural parts of this country and in third world countries. The Yardeni guy, of course, was almost predicting Armageddon. Any response from Microsoft on the issue? Tony

To: GVTucker who wrote (98786)	2/11/2000 5:25:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

GV, maybe you're right about GG looking for eyeballs, or something. From the Microsoft thread: Message 12849159 Now Gartenberg of Gartner Group just said on CNBC that what they said about 25% of customers having some problems with W2K was just "business as usual", normal, samo samo as with any other brand new thing. A Bear Stearns guy, also interviewed by CNBC said, 'put it this way, 75% of customers would be happy.' That's good. Bear Stearns guy looking for 120 -130 bucks on the stock, when asked. The CNBC guy also said 'what's the big deal, bug fixes coming in June, right?' Botom line is that the Gartner guy was backpedaling and the Bear Stearns guy was bullish! Much ado about nothing. Tony