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To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (8362)	1/5/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Andrew H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

>>From the sound of it, the handful of y2k companies may not have their hands full for a year or even a while yet?<< The author was speaking specifically in regard to embedded systems problems. And he said "the big organizations might be able to sort themselves out by throwing money at the problem." This is what we are now seeing with BMY, Merck, 3M, Boeing, GM, Unilever, etc., although I would not necessarily characterize it as throwing money at the problem. Remember Jenkins stated that the BMY contract alone "could" keep 60 TPRO engineers busy for 2 years. Now that's just 1 company and 125 plants. What would a Unilever contract do with over 500 plants (even if we assume all plants are not equal)? Certainly large companies that had not been looking into embedded systems problems have been put on notice by the BMY contract (not to mention many of BMY's suppliers). So if TPRO really is and has what be think it is and has, I think they will very soon have their hands more than full.