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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (928)	1/19/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: sibe	Respond to of 9818

from the ITAA weekly epistle: y2koutlook@itaa.org Katzen Calls It Quits The Clinton Administration¡s top official for Year 2000 is moving to a new assignment in the federal government. Sally Katzen, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has been appointed Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. She will serve as Deputy Director at the National Economic Council. Katzen has led federal efforts to manage the Y2K conversion within federal agencies. She has also served as the Administration¡s chief spokesman for addressing the issue before Congress. Katzen is expected to leave the position in the next few weeks. Although Y2K issues drew Katzen into the spotlight, the larger part of her job involved overall government oversight of regulatory affairs. "Katzen lacked the management clout to expedite the government¡s response to Year 2000," said one industry observer. "While OMB has a broken line reporting relationship on Year 2000 to agency CIOs, what it really needs is a pointy stick to make things happen. That means a direct connection to Cabinet Secretaries on this issue."

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (928)	1/20/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

COBOL for dummies out now :-) Another humorous gem from comp.software.year-2000 dwkunkel@hotmail.com Dave Kunkel at Hooked Online Services I went to Barnes and Noble yesterday and was confronted with the usual display tables as I entered the store. The new "Cobol for Dummies" book was prominently displayed on one of the tables and piled high right next to it was "Learn Cobol in 21 Days". Both books had blurbs on their covers about y2k. The sudden appearance of a "Dummies" book on cobol coupled with the corollary sighting of "Learn Cobol in 21 Days" adds up to conclusive proof that we are all in BIG trouble! Dave Kunkel