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

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (672)	12/11/1997 8:22:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Ron, <I apologize for breaking the rules of this thread. I've had it bookmarked for some time but hadn't yet read through it.> No big deal. Everyone slips occasionally. It's easy to do when posting to mutiple threads. I didn't even catch it, until I got your most recent post. I just don't want to give some unscrupulous people an entree to use this thread to promote stocks. (I'm sure you've run into some of the people I talk about, if you lurk on various threads.) Thusfar, everyone who's made contributions on this thread, has done it to basically share info with others. *That's always been my objective.* I don't want to be a hall moniter. I don't want people to be paranoid like I'm an ogre. Cheryl Svejk You've always been an exceptional contributor. I never meant to imply otherwise. When I initially responded to you, it was basically a means to remind other people what the purpose of the thread was.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (672)	12/12/1997 12:07:00 AM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Humbly report, David Eddy: "I was talking to a Y2K project manager today at a manufacturing facility. Their BOM (bill-of-materials) system has just gone back into production & is running ok (so far with only a few small hiccups). He pointed out that early on they determined that this system's "drop dead" date is 1/1/98, since it looks forward into the future a full two years. Also on the other side, they won't be fully out of the woods until 1/1/01 since the system also looks backwards a full year. Point being: the world doesn't simple STOP on 1/1/00... most big, operational systems have a variety of "critical event windows" that will begin to crop up in increasing intensity & density as we APPROACH 1/1/00. The really tricky part is that unless you know the interdependancies of your systems & subsystems really well, the main system can be chugging merrily along just fine, but some "small" auxiliary system can be getting spurious results that may not show up until months later... prime example being the story in today's (12/11/97, B1) WSJ on Oxford Health care. [Executives..."weren't getting the statistics and data they needed to make accurate estimates on future liabilities" (sic)]" For full text please see: Message 2944328 Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com )