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

To: David Eddy who wrote (756)	12/22/1997 7:28:00 AM
From: RDavidson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

To all, GORBY????? Isn't he too busy turning environmentalism into communism? I guess he and his cronies did such a good job managing USSR that he's a shoe in to manage a worldwide problem. Regards to all, Roger

To: David Eddy who wrote (756)	1/8/1998 1:00:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Y2K-PC-SOFTWARE X-BASE: underestimated << 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 >> Hi David! Good find! I guess this is one of the other underestimated y2k efforts. I remember that the famous estimates of Capers-Jones (SPR) also mentions x-base; but I am not sure of it. I think (this is largely subjective!) that home grown X-BASE systems are grossly underestimated. We also have to think of: - no focus on this problem by any of the y2k solution providers; so no tools etc available. - 'lost source' problem will probably be much greated than in COBOL/Mainframe area ('d*mn where did those sources go?'). Regards, John