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

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (597)	12/1/1997 11:16:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Only a small percentage of U.S. business locations with Year 2000 (Year 2K) activity have mainframe systems, according to a new study from Computer Intelligence (CI), the leading source of fact-based information about the computer and communications industries. full story: ci.zd.com

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (597)	12/7/1997 12:09:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

DHL to spend $25 million to achieve Y2K compliance. pa.press.net

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (597)	12/7/1997 12:14:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Respond to of 9818

Australia checks in. >>International research published yesterday by PA Consulting found that up to 38 per cent of Australian organisations could not expect to fix the millennium bug in time, and "it is likely that severe disruption to normal business operations will occur as a result". >>PA found that while 94 per cent of Australian and New Zealand line managers were aware of the millennium bug, only 62 per cent have a formal fix-it program, and just 34 per cent have completed audits to identify the scope of the problem. >>Even among the prepared, only 44 per cent have included embedded computer systems in their programs, so some automated equipment is likely to slip the net. source: afr.com.au