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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1237)	3/21/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Testimony of America's Community Bankers on the The Depository Institution Year 2000 Computer Problem Remediation Act before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services U. S. House of Representatives February 5, 1998 James D. Shelton Chairman, President & CEO First Federal Savings and Loan Association East Hartford, CT house.gov

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1237)	3/21/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

HOW ONE COMPANY IS EXTERMINATING THE MILLENNIUM BUG On the scene with a medical insurer's SWAT team ` ''The job is orders of magnitude bigger than expected,'' Libens admits. ''We're scrambling.'' Some suppliers had never gone back and tested their products for Y2K compliance. Many of the smaller companies were no longer in business. Wherever two-digit dates must be replaced with four-digit ones, Mutual ships the whole software cluster out to Costa Mesa with explicit directions on what needs to be fixed. While under repair, that portion of the company enters a state called ''freeze.'' And woe to the employee who absentmindedly shuttles a dirty file into the clean library. ''It's a danger that we face--making sure that what gets renovated stays renovated,'' says Sidon.' ________________________________ Some lessons learned: very important are (among other issues): - version management - vendor management - project management, program management John businessweek.com