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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (745)	12/21/1997 6:33:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Rumour on super-large crude carriers Found on SIM discussion board, Topic 11, 'Infrastructure Year 2000 Problems' John ---------- .... 'Begin forwarded message: Just got off the phone with a contact at the US Army Corps of Engineers. He was passing on to me a conversation he had had with an individual whose firm had done a Y2K study on behalf of Shell and other oil companies. The findings: that there was a roughly 30% Y2K failure rate in the embedded control systems aboard very-large and super-large crude carriers (VLCCs and SLVCs), the enormous and highly computerized oil tankers that ply the oceans. There was also about the same failure rate in the embedded control systems found in fuel storage facilities at overseas airports. If anyone can get hard documentation on this, I'd appreciate it. And the clock just keeps on ticking.... Bruce F. Webster, CTO, Object Systems Group Member, Fannie Mae Year 2000 Team Chair Pro Tem, Washington DC Year 2000 Group ... '

To: John Mansfield who wrote (745)	12/21/1997 6:47:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Utility Y2K project in SW of GB swebuk.com Go to Millennium Initiative; Detailed Impact Link found on SIM discussion board. Contains a detailed description of all aspects of testing etc; also embedded systems. John ---------- 'PROFILE: South Western Electricity plc (SWEB) is a subsidiary of Southern Energy Inc., whose parent firm Southern Company is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Southern Company is the largest producer of electricity in the United States and one of the largest in the world. Southern Company Supplies energy to a 120,000-square-mile area of the Southeastern U.S. Internationally, provides energy and technical expertise to 11 countries on four continents. Has total assets of approximately $30 billion and is one of the most widely held corporate stocks in the U.S. SWEB is the electricity company that serves the South West of England, (the counties of South Gloucestershire, part of Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly). With annual sales of more than œ870 million and 1.3 million customers, SWEB is one of the largest companies in the South West.'

To: John Mansfield who wrote (745)	12/21/1997 11:59:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Y2K-PC-SOFTWARE - Foxpro to Access conversion I did a fulltext search on www.dejanews.com with the word 'Y2K'. This is an interesting posting: - typical PC software problem; - typical person addressing the problem: US Sergeant; so probably not a professional IT person (apologies to Timothy Brown if I am mistaken!); - at loss at how to fix the problem; - no tools; how-to-books; courses etc available to help him. These guys need some helping hand, tools, courses etc to rapidly fix their problems. A market opportunity IMHO. Thanks to Timothy Brown! John --------------------- Subject: y2K conversion From: brownt@NOSPAM.skynet.be (Timothy Brown) Date: 1997/12/17 Message-ID: <349797e0.438826185@news.skynet.be> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.access.externaldata Happy Holidays! Situation: I am currently writing a new application in Access. It is to replace an older application written in Foxpro 2.6. Problem: there are several fields in the older database that used a 6 character text field to represent dates formated as "yymmdd". I have been racking my brain as to how to get Access to recognize entries such as "000228" as being 28 Feb 2000. What am I missing? regards, Tim Brown Sergeant US Army

To: John Mansfield who wrote (745)	12/21/1997 11:01:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

John - This I have found on X-BASE; thanks to Charles P. Reuben. Any thoughts on the business implications? I'd guess that Charlie's guesstimates are close enough for govt work. I looked in a PC Applications Encyclopedia. They listed: - 3056 'publishers' - 20,727 unique titles - 630 subject headings Of course these numbers DO NOT cover any custom development done by your favorite cousin Lewie who was regarded as the family computer whiz at age 16 & wrote lots of 'way cool' xBase stuff when he had that summer job.... you get the picture. - David