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To: Rob L. who wrote (9570)	1/27/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Dear Rob L: How do you know they arent?? TPRO's target market are all very large well capitalized firms with lots of engineers themselves. Maybe some are trying to do it themselves, maybe some dont want the publicity. TPRO has an increasing number of engineers ALL WORKING so I presume they are doing something. Watch the employee hires that will give you a guide as to how business is expanding. This is a service business outside of the CD-ROM. JDN

To: Rob L. who wrote (9570)	1/27/1998 11:03:00 AM
From: Gerald L. Kerr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

>> I would like to know why more y2k companies are not addressing the embedded systems problem?<< Rob, the so-called Y2K companies are primarily focused on business systems where already the scope of the problem exceeds the availability of people to fix it. Embedded systems and their software are essentially disjoint from business systems: Different languages, different people, radically different skill sets. IMO, it's not generally understood that today's industrial processes ride on silicon and software as much as on gears, levers, motors and pistons. While everyone is aware that microprocessors made the personal computer a reality, those same advances in chip technology spawned a profound revolution in industrial processes...IMO, the real computer revolution. Moore's law reigns with the same force in today's factory as on today's desktop. One would never know that, however, from reading the popular commentaries on the wonders of the computer "revolution". Real advances in productivity are measured by how many people are required to produce the millions and millions of widgets which ultimately enter the consumption food-chain...not by how many memos, letters and reports are churned out at headquarters. The so-called economists and academicians who fail to see the productivity gains from computerization are really clueless. My opinions only, Gerry

To: Rob L. who wrote (9570)	1/27/1998 6:30:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 31646

Rob, For the same reasons that most companies, especially smaller ones, as well as the Gov't are so late in beginning their Y2K software remediation programs. Denial..... It does little good for ones career as a senior engineer to have spent all of this hard cash over the past couple of decades replacing their old analog systems with digital controllers, only to have to tell their supervisors that they aren't sure if they are Y2K compliant or not. Y2K is not career enhancing and it adds little to a company's bottom line except the opportunity for post-2000 survival as a corporate entity. However, on the other hand if these folks are close to retirement anyway..... :0) The Y2K issue is not a technology problem. It is a business problem and few engineers know how to sell the necessary maintenance project to folks who are soley interested in keeping the bottom line intact to meet investor's short term earnings expectations. That is why 1998 should prove so interesting to Global business overall. If we think are corporate structure doesn't reward mistakes or failure, compare it to those of Asia countries where saving face is everything. That is why I am so gloomy about prospects for resolving Y2K in a timely manner. We'll see....... Just my humble opinion. Regards, Ron