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

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (571)	2/21/1998 6:06:00 PM
From: sibe	Respond to of 9818

From Dow Jones as reported in SF Examiner on 2/21/98: Symantec sued over AntiVirus 2000 bug New York Shareholders of Symantec Corp., filed a lawsuit seeking class action status alleging breach of implied warranty and related claims in connection with the company's Norton AntiVirus software. Attorneys representing the plaintiff said the complaint concerned the inability of Norton AntiVirus prior to Version 4.0 to recognize and process dates starting in 2000. A spokesman for Symantec wasn't available for comment.

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (571)	4/19/1998 11:58:00 AM
From: sibe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Front page article in San Francisco Examiner business section, 4/19, states "Don't believe the year 2000 hype." In short, she claims that the problems will be minor, easy to fix, and that the Y2k business is based on fear-mongers trying to rip you off.

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (571)	6/21/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: sibe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Gingrich Wants $4B for 2000 Bug MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) - House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Saturday that Republicans will seek at least $4 billion in emergency spending to solve the millennium computer problem. ''We believe that the Year 2000 computer problem is a lot bigger problem than the president and the administration has admitted,'' Gingrich said. Many computers that recognize only the last two digits of a year are expected to fail or malfunction Jan. 1, 2000, because they will read the date as 1900. Date-sensitive software throughout the world could be affected.