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

To: Joseph E. McIsaac who wrote (824)	1/3/1998 12:34:00 PM
From: Hoatzin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Joseph, and it never will happen again. I guarantee you that a few programmers will write code using only two digits for years sometime during the year 2000, and I am confident that the practice (by software users and creators) of assuming the century to be a constant "20" will become widespread by 2005 (there is nothing wrong with this practice, BTW, as long as you are always right). I am also certain there will again be some kind century roll-over problems in 2099. Even if there is no more COBOL, and VB is ubiquitous. (0.01 probability) Kevin

To: Joseph E. McIsaac who wrote (824)	1/5/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Jeff Redman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

The banks, brokerage firms, public utilities, large corporations, all have been working on this for a couple of years (more or less) now and they know what is at stake. It's the small businesses with a small I.S. shop that will have the most problems, some will go out of business, some will be bought out by larger companies, still others will get it solved. I know of several companies in the West Michigan area that have been working on this for some time and will be ready.