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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TD who wrote (8920)	1/13/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13949

Programmer Jobs and Y2K In today's New York Times: With Boom in High Technology, Software Jobs Go Begging nytimes.com As America relies more heavily on computer software than ever before, the demand for people who can develop and use the tools of the modern age has vastly outstripped the existing supply. And the shortage is expected to get much worse as an estimated 1 million new programming jobs come open in the next nine years. What is more, the shortage is contributing to a looming crisis known as the year 2000 problem, a legacy of a long-practiced programming economy in which years were denoted with two digits -- using 75 for 1975, for example. Unless all date-sensitive lines of computer code are tracked down and fixed, many businesses and institutions, from banks to government agencies to research labs and air traffic control centers, will be thrown into chaos or simply cease operating on Jan. 1, 2000.