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

To: David Eddy who wrote (8077)	11/25/1997 9:55:00 AM
From: Gerald Underwood	Respond to of 13949

David, For anyone having problems with source code, this company claims to have a solution. source-recovery.com Gerry

To: David Eddy who wrote (8077)	11/25/1997 10:12:00 AM
From: Skeptic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

One of the primary scarce resources is senior management attention My statement was made in the context of assessing who would benefit or be hurt by Y2K spending. I totally agree that management leadership in addressing the problem is crucial. But I stand by my assertion that the biggest beneficiaries are the programmers and engineers. I know several mediocre programmers who have doubled or tripled their salaries in the last two years and it can only get better for them.

To: David Eddy who wrote (8077)	11/25/1997 7:55:00 PM
From: Hardware Heister	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

One of the primary scarce resources is senior management attention. Not where I work. We've got 50 openings for programmers in an IS staff of about 300. And if they could fill those 50, more openings would appear. The 'primary scarce resource' is people with technical skills and 360 degree knowledge of the system. We've got plenty of managers. In fact, they're having some of them do technical stuff, God help us.

To: David Eddy who wrote (8077)	11/25/1997 11:36:00 PM
From: Pancho Villa	Respond to of 13949

David: this is precisely the point! You are 300% rigth1 People have been arguing about the size of the y2k fix market as the key issue in valuation. Who cares if it is $999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 The bottlenecks are people (both technicians and managers, with the latter being probably the one most worrisome) and TIME about 110 weeks to the big day! of course there are companies that do not have these problems but many do. Some will even get contracts but won't deliver. Many will get sued. I am sure some of the scared people with their "neck in the line" working for some of these outfits understand what I mean. Many will take the money and run. Pancho