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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (513)	11/25/1997 9:05:00 AM
From: Ken Merwin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

C.K. Houston: Interesting reading! I participate in another Internet mailing list, "CYB-ACC - Cyber-Accountability", a list focused on discussions of issues relevant to the non-profit and charitable organizations as pertains to their compliance with requirements of their grant funding sources, IRS filing requirements (the Form 990 for tax-exempts) and other compliance/audit/legal matters. I would like to share some of the posts and links from this thread with that group since I have not seen any discussion of Y2K issues and thought I should check with you to see if permission is granted to do that. I believe that work shared and quoted from on the Internet should meet the same standards for citing, etc. as any other work, including securing the permission of the author/publisher beforehand. I'd also be intested in seeing any links or other resources that might be very relevant to this sector. One very important issue with this sector, of course, is the fact that many of the smaller non-profits/charities perhaps lack the budget to engage lots of professional help; also the fact that many of their accounting and other data systems are "home brew" or modifications of other off-the-shelf packages. I'd appreciate permission to post at least some of the links and text over to this mailling list. Regards, Ken Merwin Wisconsin (Y2K compliant???)

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (513)	11/25/1997 10:03:00 AM
From: Skeptic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

I have no doubt that if this were November, 1999, there would be no way to avoid an economic and social disaster. But two years is a long time. Do you think a disaster is already inevitable? I know Gartner says it is already too late for many companies, but they're talking about full-scale remediation efforts. In the face of impending doom, people will find a lot of quick fixes and work-arounds that are far from ideal, but good enough to get by. I sense that the business world has really woken up to the problem in the last few months. If the stock market starts to discount the possible economic effects, it will get everyone's attention. It seems that the people who are treating the problem seriously aren't having major difficulties fixing it. It just takes a major commitment of time and resources. Maybe the following paradox applies: If we all believe its serious, it won't be. If too many people don't think so, it will be. I'd like to hear what other people think about how much can be done in the two years that remain.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (513)	11/25/1997 11:30:00 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

>>Society for Information Management Year 2000 Working Group COPY FOLLOWS<< Fascinating discusssion, Cheryl. A very succinct summary of a complex problem. >>If you want all the specs on the machinery of the testing, why don't you call Deloitte and Touche, our auditors. Send them a couple hundred grand and they will give you a database of all the tests they did for us and GM and Chrysler. Or send the EPRI 75 grand and they will be more than happy to let you look at a lot of proof.<< Anyone think that D&T might repackage their database of info into a CD, a la TPRO? And if they did these tests for GM, why would GM want TPRO too? EPRI also seems to be generating a big database of info as a result of testing systems. Would either of these databases be comparable to TPRO's? Gina