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To: tech who wrote (1506)	12/9/1997 5:08:00 PM
From: tech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3391

WHO IS WHO AT AGISS MR. SCOTT FEAGAN is appointed President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Feagan was previously President of CPAD Technologies Inc. and was founder of AGISS Power Technologies Corporation. He brings over 25 years of business experience in various senior management positions. MR. SANDY MCQUARRIE is appointed Senior Vice President Operations. Mr. McQuarrie has 30 years experience in the Canadian Military and most recently Vice President Business Development at CPAD Technologies Inc. MR. FRANCOIS HUBERT is appointed Vice President Business Development. Mr. Hubert was until recently a Senior Executive with the Government of Canada. He brings over 23 years of Informatics experience, most recently as Director of Informatics Procurement with PWGSC. [Note - PSWGC is the department which handles procurement for the federal government] MR. AL SCULLION is appointed as Director Technology Sales. Mr. Scullion was with the Government of Canada for over 20 years during which he fulfilled various managerial jobs with Transport Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat and more recently, Statistics Canada as Director Financial Policies and Systems. [Note - Treasury Boad Secretariat is the department which establishes federal government financial policy] In the business world most of the time the old adage of "it's not what you know, but who you know, that matters." Well, in the case of AGISS they have both bases covered. The "who" is listed above The "what" is the ConSyGen toolset. I think it would be reasonable to say that AGISS should have a direct line into getting contracts from the Canadian Government. The only question is how many millions of lines of code will be converted with the ConSyGen toolset ?

To: tech who wrote (1506)	12/9/1997 6:12:00 PM
From: tech	Respond to of 3391

A Shortage of U.S. Programmers: 400,000? 500,000? Link: chicago.tribune.com There are an estimated 600,000 mainframe programmers needed to fix U.S. systems. Some 200,000 are in the work force. There are 300,000 retired mainframe programmers. But . . . 90% of programming is maintenance. All 200,000 can't be put on y2k projects. But . . . all 300,000 retirees are not available. But . . . some estimates are as high as 750,000 needed. How ya gonna fix it? Then there's the rest of the world, where 80% of the code is. The story appeared in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE (Dec. 1). * * * * * * * With estimates that it will take 600,000 qualified programmers, systems analysts and testers to solve the year 2000 problem, but that there are only about 200,000 in the work force, the potential shortfall is cited as a reason that millennium-bug costs will rise and all systems might not get fixed in time. Payson says there are roughly 300,000 such professionals who either are retired, semiretired, part-time workers or those willing to moonlight, if the price and conditions are right. ------------------------------------------- ConSyGen Your Year 2000 Solution, minus the hundreds of programmers.