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To: Done, gone. who wrote (7967)	11/19/1997 11:08:00 AM
From: TEDennis	Respond to of 13949

Just an FYI. You can find really interesting stuff on the web ... After reading this, some people might begin to think that the 300-600 billion Gartner estimate isn't too far off, after all. These are just colleges ... not Fortune 500 behemoths. TED ************ brown.edu Millennial millions Here's what the most selective schools in the country are spending to get their computer systems ready for the 21st century and to solve the Y2K problem* Stanford: $100 million; replacing several core systems and repairing others Cornell: $80 million Harvard: $50 million Princeton: $50 million including $5 million specifically for Y2K Yale: "Multimillion-dollar" overhaul, including Y2K Dartmouth: Most systems Y2K compliant Columbia: Combo of repair and replace - no dollar figure yet. Plan to have all code conversions completed by end of 1998 and spend 1999 in testing phase UPenn: No estimate released, but has been working on retrofitting and replacing core systems since 1992. MIT: No estimate released yet, but will do a combo of repair and replace; currently in inventory and assessment phase UChicago: No estimate released yet. Brown: $4 million *Estimates based on information from the above institutions

To: Done, gone. who wrote (7967)	11/19/1997 12:00:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

BC, I hear that the only two attendees at the electrical engineering seminar on non Y2K compliant chips were from C*GI. One of them went away mumbling something like "The speaker is a liar. I mean why else would I have spent all our reg D money on a fix for embedded COBOL code?" - Jeff P.S. The preceding was a joke and is presented for entertainment purposes only. This disclaimer is also a joke and presented for entertainment purposes only.