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To: tech who wrote (2299)	1/27/1998 12:51:00 PM
From: Tech Master	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3391

tech- Where is the NASDAQ listing? Just wondering, Tech Master P.S. I guess that things aren't on schedule are they?

To: tech who wrote (2299)	1/28/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: Bernie Bildman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3391

Saw this on Foxnews:: "Company says it has cheap fix for 2000 bug 4:53 p.m. ET (2153 GMT) January 27, 1998 CANBERRA - A small Australian computer software company said on Tuesday it had developed an easy, cheap, do-it-yourself solution to the millennium bug problem. Inforsoft Pty Ltd, a six-month-old company based in the Australian capital of Canberra, said the Info 2000 programme was designed for the corporate sector and was available for about one-third of the cost of alternatives. Many companies now use consultants to fix the millenium bug or chose the time-consuming process of going through programmes themselves. Info 2000 would cost about A$160,000 compared to the A$500,000 cost of using a consultant to install a similar programme, Inforsoft managing director Arnold Cummins said. "With this, it really strikes the right sort of middle way, so that it's neither labour intensive at the organisation nor cost intensive in terms of having an outsider do it for you,'' Cummins told Reuters. The package is aimed at fixing the programming flaw in which some computers, recognising years by only the last two digits, mistakenly read the year 2000 as the year 1900. The error, known as the millennium or Year 2000 bug, could make computers malfunction or shut down and has led to fears of electronic chaos at the start of 2000. Cummins said Inforsoft had formed a partnership with United States computer company CompuWare Corp (CPWR.O) to further the development and marketing of its programme worldwide. He said the potential sales value of products in the corporate market was well over A$50 million ($33 million) and the Info 2000 programme was expected to win a significant share of this. "I don't think that we would be the first ever to come up with this particular approach, but I do think that in the field we're talking about, with the corporate systems we're talking about, I do think it's pretty unique,'' Cummins said. He said the company would particularly concentrate on marketing the programme in the United Kingdom and Asia. "We've done our market research and there are one or two things around overseas that may be in the same area, but they don't appear to have done very much.'' The programme could also be used to find other programming errors and change them. For example, it could be used to update programmes if the U.K. changes its currency to the European currency. "Any changes that would be implied by that, you can use that same package to make those changes as well,'' he said. "You can set out the rules and let it work accordingly.'' (A$1-$0.67) ((Canberra newsroom 61-2-6273-2730, canberra.newsroom+reuters.com))"