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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (195)	3/10/1998 9:52:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 618

With 22 months to identify, fix and test every supply-chain system, failures will occur. Here's a look at how six companies plan to minimize the damage: Excerpt Union Pacific Corp. in Omaha has whittled its list of 16,000 outside vendors to 800 critical suppliers of everything from wheel bearings and brake shoes to PC-based software. OH DEAR. What will happen to those other 15,2000 non-mission critical suppliers?? But what most worries Fred Krause, the 41-year Union Pacific veteran charged with tracking suppliers' year 2000 plans, is computerized equipment, such as trackside event recorders and the black boxes on locomotives. Four in 10 of those vendors have responded to Union Pacific's year 2000 survey, but not all of the information has been reliable. *YIKES - Embedded Systems!!* computerworld.com Excellent SUPPLY CHAIN article