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

To: Skeptic who wrote (528)	11/25/1997 4:29:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Skeptic, <I may have missed a linked to link somewhere, but I've read at least 95% of these items. I just don't accept everything I read as gospel. I need to have some sense of the source's credibility and would like confirmation from several different sources. (My handle wasn't chosen lightly).> These guys were apparently good enough for Senate Subcomittees to listen to (hope they're good enough for you): - Ed Yardeni, Chief Economist Deutsche Morgan - Tony Keyes, Radio Host, Author (with 20 yr career in IT management) And, then we have ... - Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt - Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah - Cameron Thomas, Technology Director, NY Governor's Office (George Pataki) - KLM spokesman, Hugo Baas - Jay Abshier, Mgr - Corporate Year 2000 Office Texaco Inc - David Trim of Shell's year 2000 team - Bo C. Hojdefors, Principal Admin. Officer, Clinical Engineer, Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare, Medical devices *There are more ... but, this is a WASTE of my time! It's obvious you didn't read the information I provided.* Perhaps you do view Y2K as a serious issue. If something is REALLY important to you .... take the time to research it properly. Don't expect others to "spoon feed" it. ==================================================================== From: Skeptic Wednesday, Nov 19 1997 3:07PM EST < Read the research thread! People put in a lot of time just to answer questions like yours!> I've just started looking at XXXX and have been following the posts for several days. *I'd like to read everything on these threads, but that's not practical.* ..... Challenging you bulls on the fundamentals is the fastest way to get the information I'm looking for. =============================================================== Perhaps I'm a "Y2K Bull" .... I'm not referring to stocks here. I'm referring to the Y2K problem & challenges overall. There's no FAST way to get a full grasp and understanding of the problem. *You have to do your OWN homework.* I provide tools. I want people to take their blinders off ... and look at the WHOLE picture. From my perspective, if you make gobs of money in the market now ... what good does it do you when everything starts to fall apart? And, things *will* start falling apart BEFORE Jan 1, 2000. If you took the time to READ previous posts on this thread, you'd note that it's rarely used for debate. It's used to share information. If you REALLY want to debate. Perhaps you should find a newsgroup. Good luck to you, Cheryl

To: Skeptic who wrote (528)	11/25/1997 9:52:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Skeptic - I didn't intend to debate you personally. I'd like to hear where others stand on the inevitability of Armageddon on 1/1/2000. Let's get something straight here... it's largely the over excited press that seems to jump to the conclusion that we're staring down the Armageddon gun-barrel. As part of my "learning to deal with the press" education, it's been explained... "if it bleads, it leads"... Or in other words... Pearl Harbor was news on December 7th, but not on the 6th. Life on earth is not repeat not going to end on 1/1/00. Crossing the line itself will be a relative non-event since we'll have had plenty of warning by then which systems need to be off-line What's going to happen (my guess, since even my crystal ball is a tad cloudy two years out <g>) is that the normal pace of our economic activities will sloooooow down. Where & to what extent remains to be seen. Do not read me wrong... I've been at Y2K full time for 37 months now (9 years if you count my intimate knowledge of the software maintenace habits of the Fortune 1000)... and we're still firmly stuck in the awareness phase. Serious butt-in-the-chair work has yet to begin in many, many organizations. Factor in the winds of fashion: CASE tools, client/server, "the mainframe is dead!"; BPR (business process re-engineering), mergers, etc. & you have a lot of seriously stunned IT departments. A recent editorial in ComputerWorld by Paul Strassmann pointed out that CIOs are turning over at a 40% annual rate!!!!! Finally... lots & lots of people believe: (1) Y2K's a scam by vendors/consultants or (2) Bill Gates will fix it since the world runs on PCs. - David