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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Done, gone. who wrote (7717)	11/11/1997 2:14:00 AM
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Y2k Press Clippings - From Novell to Model: International Herald Tribune: "Novell's CEO Dares Europe to Take Some Risks." iht.com Quote: "Question: How do you perceive the ''year 2000'' problem? Answer: [Eric Schmidt is chief executive officer of Novell Corp.] Personally, I am surprised at how bad the problem is. I was not aware, and I think most people were not aware, at how extensive these 30- to 35-year-old solutions were in the industry as a whole. A number of customers that I have spoken to have enormous business problems updating programs for which the programmers are literally dead. I have reluctantly concluded that all the press about the ''year 2000'' problem is in fact correct. The danger, of course, is that the year 2000 problem coupled with the Euro, which occurs one year earlier - and by the way, you could not have scheduled it at a worse time from an IT perspective - will likely drain a lot of funds from a lot of other things." InfoWorld: "Year-2000 desktop infrastructure: Debacle on the desktop." infoworld.com Quote: "The year-2000 problem won't just affect your legacy applications. It will wreak havoc on your desktop infrastructure too. The best way to prevent the problem is to attack it before it attacks you." Deseret News: "Supermodel poses super question: What about Y2K?" desnews.com Quote: "After Christie Brinkley toured Nu Skin International's headquarters in downtown Provo a few months ago, she asked a question that floored the firm's computer systems manager. "By the way," asked the super model who pitches the company's beauty products, "what is Nu Skin doing about Y2K?" The computer guy actually had quite a lengthy answer for Billy Joel's ex-wife that had nothing to do with secret skin-cream formulas or retirement plans as the acronym might suggest." Joining them together and digesting them into order. --Blair. . Bounced Czech (FBN - Digest.)