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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (638)	12/5/1997 3:47:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

John, Unfortunately, it would probably take at least a 500% salary increase for non-Y2K programmers to decide to work on Y2K. Ain't gonna happen. COBOL stuff is not fun. It's boring. Besides, if they took a step back to work on things like COBOL ... they'd be behind in the ballgame, when they wanted to get back into what they REALLY wanted to do. But ... you'd get a LOT of new, inexperienced people who would jump at the chance for the big bucks. My fear is that a couple of years down the road programmers & engineers will be drafted by the government. When, and if, that happened ... all instructions will be hand-written, with carbon copies. Remember mimeograph machines? Cheryl

To: John Mansfield who wrote (638)	12/6/1997 10:31:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions exchange2000.com Started By: Joseph E. McIsaac Date: Nov 24 1997 4:32PM EST Replies: 1 Year 2000 assessment of a target institition must be taken into consideration in today's mergers and acquisitions. The impact of the Year 2000 on Mergers and Acquisitions are discussed here. -------- First message on this thread: Bankers' Forum 2000 is a consortium of bankers, mainly Y2K project managers, who meet regularly to share information on the vendors who serve banks. In our last series of meetings we began to refer to the recently announced acquisition of Corestates Bank (by First Union) as an "Instant Y2K Plan". This provided some grim amusement to the group. I should add that this option, like so many others, will not be available for long!