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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 (290)	3/29/1998 12:40:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 618

An Idea for Industry Wide Fixes: The Embedded SWAT Team by Jon Huntress 'One of the big problems in dealing with the year 2000 issue in the time remaining is allocation of resources. There isn't enough time left to fix everything. There is barely enough time left to find out what "everything" is. While everyone is now at least aware that there is a problem, managers of many businesses and industries need some help in decided how to prioritize and where to spend the available dollars. Published articles have focused on the mainframe/software situation, which could affect our bank statements, invoices, bar codes pricing, cash registers, ATM machines, databases, as well as government agencies like the IRS and Social Security. Problems in these areas could be very upsetting. But the problems with embedded systems could be potentially worse because they will affect our basic infrastructure of communications, transportation, and the supply of water, gas, and electricity. ' Then there are the attendant legal issues. There is good anecdotal evidence that legal issues are starting to become a major impediment to sharing information about finding and fixing the problems and are also becoming a big distraction to getting on with the work. At a recent Y2K conference in Atlanta for the electric power industry (put on by EPRI of Palo Alto), an attendee told me that time and again he heard the phrase, "Our lawyers told us we can't talk about that." millennia-bcs.com 'Jon Huntress is a consultant for contingency and disaster recovery planning in Portland, Oregon. He is on a commission to advise the Senate Committee on Small Business under the Chair of Senator Bond, (R-MO) on year 2000 difficulties faced by the business community. He is also the chairperson for the Education and PR Committee for the Portland Year 2000 Ready Users Group.