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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1240)	3/23/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

IBM Hardware Ready or NOT Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 04:57:47 GMT From: "Jim Abel" Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 --- IBM maintains a database with the readiness of their hardware and software. wwwyr2k.raleigh.ibm.com It has a java applet that lets you query for the readiness status of items they have sold. I ran some queries about hardware and counted up some totals. In all fairness, it should be said that much of the non-compliant hardware is obsolete. IBM deserves praise for performing a detailed inventory of their products and making it public. If more companies would do this a lot of the embedded questions would be answered. Nevertheless, I wonder just how many people know that their POS system or the System 38 in the basement is going to croak? (I'm not even going to try to format this table) HW Category - Total Items - # Not Compliant - # That Need a Patch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PC Servers - 1416 - 787 - 147 Laptops - 2043 - 797 - 366 S390 - 1091 - 717 - 0 RS/6000 - 1028 - 559 - 67 AS/400 - 189 - 47 - 0 System 3X - 842 - 841 - 0 Network HW - 1364 - 624 - 46 Series 1 - 18 - 18 - 0 System 88 - 141 - 141 - 0 Printers - 1237 - 406 - 14 Storage - 613 - 146 - 0 Banking - 201 - 97 - 23 POS - 205 - 107 - 26 Other - 124 - 64 - 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's right, 51% of the hardware listed in the database in these categories is not compliant. They do say that this category included some things that are still being tested, but... There must be huge quantities of this hardware out there, much of it bought from resellers and some of it bought used. 51% of it is going to die. Jim Abel