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To: tech who wrote (2129)	1/13/1998 2:07:00 PM
From: tech	Respond to of 3391

_______________ Australia: Almost 50% of Systems May Fail ____________ Link: australian.aust.com A third of Australia's organizations may not make the deadline, calling into question 47% of the systems. The governments are far, far behind. This appeared in THE AUSTRALIAN (Dec. 31). * * * * * * * Research published in the past few months indicates that around a third of Australian organisations might not be ready on December 31, 1999. This means that as many as 47 per cent of time-sensitive computer systems could begin 2000 by closing down, with ramifications as mild as a voice-mail service malfunctioning or as grave as a hospital's life-support systems shutting off. . . . Damian Chown, the chief executive of Australian Business Foresight, says small and medium-sized businesses remain frighteningly unaware. "And even if owners have heard about it, most haven't really put in any plan to address it," he says. "I think a lot of them have underestimated the extent to which it might affect them." . . . Governments are also struggling with the bug, with an auditor- general's report last week finding just 3 per cent of the agencies surveyed were "reasonably prepared". . . . Bill Benham, project co-ordinator at Brisbane-based Computer Outlook 2000, says the West Australian State Government seems to be the best prepared, followed by NSW and the Northern Territory. "The rest haven't even left the starting gate ... and the Federal Government is as badly off as any of them," he says.

To: tech who wrote (2129)	1/13/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: tech	Respond to of 3391

____________________ Asia Is Facing a Major Problem __________________ Link: afr.com.au Asia is far behind in y2k repair. This threatens the entire world economy. Even before y2k becomes the critical factor, Asia is in turmoil. What happens in 1999 and beyond? Who has enough capital to bail out Japan? But it's more than just the banks. It's the supply chain. The West is dependent on Asian production. What happens when these supply lines break? This appeared in the AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW (Dec. 24). * * * * * * Australian organisations with operations or partners in South-East Asia are expected to encounter severe difficulties as the 2000 computer bug sweeps across the poorly prepared region. The vice-president of the Thai Management Association Arporna Sribhibhadt last week was among those in the region urging businesses to do more to address the looming "Y2K" problem. Speaking at the "Year 2000 Trans-century IT Time Bomb conference" in Bangkok, Mr Sribhibhadt said that 90 percent of all applications would be affected by year 2000 issues and that the cost of addressing the problem would double year on year until the turn of the century. . . . And Mr Phil Dodd, vice-president of Unisys' year 2000 business in Asia and the South Pacific, said: "The year 2000 problem and the domino effect that will be evidenced in supply chain breakdowns will make the currency crisis appear as a mere blip." Mr Dodd said that following talks with the Thai Government he believed that at least one of the country's "major public infrastructure" systems would fail by 2000. ____________________________________________________________________ note* ConSyGen Announces Year 2000 Partner in Singapore biz.yahoo.com >> PHOENIX, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 1997--ConSyGen Inc. (OTCBB:CSGI) announced today that it has signed a teaming agreement with Millennium IT Pte. Ltd. of Singapore. Under this agreement, Millennium IT Pte. Ltd. will market ConSyGen's fully automated Year 2000 and software conversion services into Singapore and the rest of South East Asia and will install Conversion Centers in Singapore and Manila. Through these Conversion Centers, client code from Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand can be made fully compliant for the year 2000 and beyond using ConSyGen's fully automated ConSyGen 2000 toolset. <<

To: tech who wrote (2129)	1/13/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: tech	Respond to of 3391

______________ New York State Faces a Crisis, Says Official ___________ Link: wtonline.com H. Karl McCall, the State's Comptroller, has warned about y2k. The State plans to hire an independent auditor in January. It plans to set up a committee in March. That leaves until December to finish everything and be ready for testing. Any bets? Yes. Tens of millions of bets -- by the residents of New York who sit there, unaware of what they are facing. The betters say, "No problem; the programmers will make the deadline." That's why people betting the other way can still get good odds. They can still sell their urban homes and get out . . . maybe out of the state. * * * * * * * The state of New York's Office for Technology plans to hire an independent auditor in January to review the state's preparations for resolving year 2000 software problems, technology office officials said. Plans call for the audit, commissioned by New York's interagency Year 2000 Steering Committee, to be completed by March, said Camaron Thomas, director of the Office for Technology, a 30-person agency responsible for coordinating the approach state entities take to resolve year 2000 issues. It was previously known as the Governor's Task Force on Information Resource Management. . . . In a press release issued in November, McCall, a Democrat, said, "Unless significant progress is made quickly to solve the state's year 2000 computer problems, New York is facing a potential crises in the delivery of government services ranging from the operation of public transportation systems, to the monitoring of air and water quality, to the operation of life support systems in public hospitals." "Although time is running out, the state and local governments are just waking up to the extent of the challenge," McCall said. . . . The Office for Technology estimates that strict year 2000 conversion work will cost $250 million, excluding the replacement of major systems such as the Office of the State Comptroller's payroll project. . . . New York's year 2000 conversion effort is tough to coordinate by virtue of its size and scope of operations, said Thomas Davies, vice president of state and local consulting for the market research firm Federal Sources, McLean, Va. No comprehensive study has been done on the cost of resolving the state's year 2000 problems, Davies said.