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To: John Mansfield who wrote (329)	12/13/1997 8:59:00 AM
From: Gerald Underwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 810

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND Y2K iee.org.uk Gerry

To: John Mansfield who wrote (329)	12/21/1997 5:24:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 810

UNILEVER Costs soar - particularly because of embedded software sunday-times.co.uk Foundon www.year2000.com 'huge inventory-building expected to create buffer stocks ahead of January 1, 2000.'. This is the first time I see such a statement by a large firm. This might be another business opportunity in 1998-1999; whoi would benefit (you have to build additional stock room for this event)? ' "I'm concerned that up to one-fifth of our suppliers worldwide may not be fully ready for 2000," said FitzGerald. ' .This means the embedded software problem will become much more visible to all those suppliers. Any thoughts? There have been talks with Unilever, I think. Any thoughts? John ------------------------- December 21 1997 Millennium bug alarms Unilever UNILEVER, the Anglo-Dutch consumer-products giant, has trebled to œ300m its estimate of the cost of eliminating the millennium computer "bug" from its operations. Niall FitzGerald, chairman of the British arm, warned last week that up to a fifth of its small and medium-sized suppliers may not have fully removed the bug by January 1, 2000. Unilever's discovery that the cost of fixing the bug is far higher than anticipated, and FitzGerald's warning about the risk to smaller suppliers, will sound an alert throughout British industry. "I'm concerned that up to one-fifth of our suppliers worldwide may not be fully ready for 2000," said FitzGerald. Unilever has set its executives the target of ensuring their operations are 2000-compliant by next October. In common with many big companies, it is likely to drop suppliers if it concludes that they will not be ready for 2000. The group is warning of the disruption to the business cycle the bug will cause, with takeover activity likely to dry up and huge inventory-building expected to create buffer stocks ahead of January 1, 2000. Iain Anderson, Unilever's technology director and a British Telecom (BT) non-executive, said last week: "There will effectively emerge a sterile zone for acquisitions. I don't know when it will start, but I doubt if there will be many acquisitions after September 1999." Unilever's comments will attract the attention of the government, whose efforts to tackle the bug in Whitehall and to alert business to its danger have been criticised by Robin Guernier, head of the independent Taskforce 2000, which is trying to raise awareness of the threat. The problem has arisen because many computer systems use only two digits, rather than four, for dating purposes. When the year changes from 99 to 00, experts say many applications will crash or create data that are, literally, rubbish. Many systems in the food industry would, for example, decide goods so labelled were out of date and should be scrapped. Anderson said the costs of tackling the bug were soaring because of the scale of the problem, particularly concerning so-called "embedded" chips - microchips installed deep in manufacturing equipment and computer systems whose software has to be checked line by line and, if necessary, rewritten. Anderson said: "The challenge isn't because it is intellectually difficult, but because there are just billions of things to be done. It's the sheer scale of the task and the relatively small number of people in the world qualified to do the work." ....

To: John Mansfield who wrote (329)	12/21/1997 5:48:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 810

Y2K-LINKS Tava added to 'the mother of...' pw2.netcom.com Someone added the TPRO site to 'Mother of All Year 2000 (Y2K) Link Centers': 'Solution Providers -- US 88.AntiY2K Associates -- Year 2000 consulting Added to (- A -). 89.Applied Testing and Technology, Inc. -- Testing Services Added to (- A -). 90.IBM -- IBM VisualAge 2000: Year 2000 Methodology and Tools Implementation Added to (- I -). 91.Tava Technologies -- Year 2000 consulting, Plant Y2kOne services for manufacturing plants Added to (- T -). '