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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (1044)	2/6/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: IVAN1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

ALL: IRS Tech chief quits. Remember Arthur Gross? He's gone. According to the Washington Post . . "Just this week, the agency's technology guru, Arthur A. Gross, announced he is quitting,reportedly after clashing with Rossotti over the strategy to modernize the agency's aging computer system. The IRS was further embarrassed by the admission that one of its contractors had misprinted the bar code on 1 million address labels, an error that will boomerang tax returns back to taxpayers who use the labels." Best, Ivan1

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (1044)	2/9/1998 1:32:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

FAA Summary Report from Westergaard Year 2000 y2ktimebomb.com Personal comment: I still see some hype on this thread from time to time, but the FAA situation is real, and it is not difficult to see that the ripple effects affect the entire economy. Think this can be used to bring the Y2K doubters into reality. excerpt: Congressional hearing held to examine how the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is (mis)handling its Year 2000 Computer Problem. The joint hearing was co-chaired by Representatives Steven Horn (R-CA) and Connie Morella (R-MD), two of the loudest and most persistent Y2K voices in Congress. Press coverage (Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, ComputerWorld, CNN, NBC, etc.) of the event was heavy and the hearing room was packed to overflowing. In his opening statement, Congressman Horn made the following chilling comments: "(T)he Federal Aviation Administration will probably not be Year 2000 compliant before the immovable deadline ... I know the FAA considers safety the number one issue. ... I believe that the pilots, airlines, air traffic controllers, and the FAA will keep flights grounded unless they are absolutely sure it is safe." Congresswoman Morella joined in with similarly strong words: "If the mission critical components of our nation's aviation systems are not Year 2000 compliant, aircraft will simply not be authorized to leave the ground." [...] One other very interesting part of the hearing was a discussion of FAA's Y2K strategy for their HOST computer system (the subject of many recent headlines) which IBM, the equipment manufacturer, has stated cannot be made Y2K compliant. FAA is using what they characterized as a "belt and suspenders" strategy to make this system compliant. It consists of repairing the existing system (both hardware and software) while simultaneously replacing it with new hardware onto which they will port the repaired code from the old system. Because there are twenty systems in jeopardy, FAA has said they don't have the time or money to replace them. (The last time they undertook such a feat, it took them three years to replace five systems.)