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

To: sibe who wrote (991)	1/29/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Safety systems face millennium shutdown There is a 50%-80% chance that all sophisticated, safety-related control systems will fail in the year 2000, damning research from the Health and Safety Executive has revealed. The report, Safety and the year 2000, found that even the most simple safety systems have a 5% chance of failing because of the millennium. Systems most at risk include those which control the sensors that detect fire or gas leaks in big production plants. Many engineering and manufacturing companies depend on these systems, and whole processes may be at risk, the report warned. full story at computerweekly.co.uk

To: sibe who wrote (991)	1/30/1998 7:13:00 AM
From: sibe	Respond to of 9818

From Year/2000 Journal (Jan/Feb 98): Capers Jones and Jan Huffman wrote an article called "Resource Conflicts between Year/2000 and Euro-Currency Conversion Problems." A quote from the article: "The European Union should wake up to the fact that Western Europe cannot do both sets of changes at the same time. ...(T)he most prudent course ...would be to move the Euro-currency date from January 1, 2002 to January 1, 2005. As the situation now stands, it is highly unlikely that the European Union will be able to achieve either Year/2000 compliance or currency conversion compliance with their available software resources. It is folly to assume that both of these massive efforts can take place at the same time."