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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (221)	11/2/1997 10:27:00 AM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein	Respond to of 810

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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (221)	11/4/1997 2:21:00 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 810

75% Of [UK] Manufacturers Have No Year 2000 Strategy Newsbytes - November 04, 1997 13:20 LONDON, ENGLAND, 1997 NOV 4 (NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis. The specter of the Year 2000 problem has started to reach computer user managers in the manufacturing world. At least, that's the story from the organizers of Computers in Manufacturing 97 (CIM 97), a show that is scheduled to open tomorrow, in London, England. According to CIM, 75 percent of UK manufacturers have no strategy to address the Year 2000 date change problem. The research, Newsbytes notes, was sponsored by CIM 97, Compaq, Computervision, DataWorks, Digital, IBM, ICL, Microsoft, Minerva, SAP, Sun, SSI, and Swan Production Software. The study, carried out by Benchmark Research and based on over 1,700 telephone interviews, claims to show that two-thirds of manufacturers have no written guarantees that their systems are Year 2000-compliant And half of the companies surveyed believe that their systems will not cope with the so-called Millennium problem. "The Year 2000 problem represents a challenge for everyone who uses technology, but the issues run more deeply for manufacturers than for most IT users," said Mark Napier, CIM 97's show director. "Manufacturers depend on technology at every level of their business -- from design, through production to distribution -- and the problem is compounded by the fact that they often have embedded systems to consider as well as mainstream hardware and software," he said. According to Napier, the survey also shows that two-thirds of manufacturers have problems with network implementation, and one in three feels that vendors do not provide the information they need to make the most of their networks. "The manufacturing sector has particular needs that drive networking investment," he said, adding that concurrent engineering, team-based solutions, and the geographic spread of sites "have combined with a growing emphasis on linking companies within supply chains to create an atmosphere in which networking technology is more important than ever." The survey also claims to show that two-thirds of manufacturers claim that their existing software cannot cope with European Monetary Union, as well as the prediction that investment in IT by UK manufacturers will increase to an estimated UKP3.2 (US$5.2) billion in 1998 from UKP3.1 billion in 1997 and just under UKP3 billion in 1996. The survey also concluded that Windows NT is making a significant impact on the computer-aided design (CAD) marketplace. The emergence of NT as a credible platform for CAD applications, and the growth in power of hardware, the company claims, means that such vendors as Compaq and Dell may now make inroads in this market. According to the survey, the main barrier to take-up of Windows NT among manufacturers has so far been the lack of applications available that will run on NT. This is now beginning to change and, over the next 12 months, the main question will be whether or not NT is sufficiently scaleable and robust to be relied upon for strategic applications. (http://www.newsbytes.com)