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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1327)	3/28/1998 4:40:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

C.S.Y2K - Quarterly Geek question on Y2K impact >2.5 Non-geek. 29 years project management and engineering data/telecom. Uh-oh, a pointy hair got in... >I've seen 'disasters' and >this ain't even close. C'mon guys, loosen up and think about what can be >done instead of freaking out about the unknown. Remember FDR?: "The only >thing we have to fear, is fear itself." Uh? Uh, that speech was both an example of great, moving presentation and in retrospect, a completely clueless, butt-headed, stupid remark. After FDR made the speech, NOTHING changed, the country continued to wallow in misery, NATO, no action, talk only. Anyway, this isn't exactly an unknown, I have seen computer software failures and I have seen management panic, scream in terror, sit paralyzed in their offices sobbing. At one company that a pal worked at, after their meltdown, the company president killed himself. This was about 5 years ago, you can look them up, Artificial Intelligence Technologies Corp, headquartered in Boston, they had a branch office in Rosslyn Virginia. The cascade of failures will wipe out companies, maybe entire industries. I voted 4 but that's because I'm optimistic. This could easily spin outa control and fearing the unknown has nothing to do with it. Take a small amount of protective action now and increase the contingencies as the days tick away. Taking no action is foolish. cory hamasaki The only thing we have to fear is that too many people will ignore the danger and not begin to take appropriate action.