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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1353)	3/31/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

'the Army will host a Year 2000 conference April 13-15 ' 'The Y2K airborne. Bill Curtis, the Pentagon's new Year 2000 czar has already started beefing up his staff, recruiting Katherine Hollis, currently the director of the electronic commerce task force at the Defense Information Systems Agency, as his deputy, along with Tom Weber, another DISA hand. Hollis proudly noted that she is a former Army paratrooper like Curtis, giving her the "hooah'' spirit to tackle a risky mission equivalent to parachuting into Baghdad. In a related development, the Army will host a Year 2000 conference April 13-15 at the Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, Va. According to Army widget boss Lt. Gen. William Campbell, the conference is of "vital interest to everyone who faces the Y2K problem, especially support contractors.'' I have a feeling we will soon see the emergence of Year 2000 groupies hanging around conferences like this, looking for autographs from aging Cobol programmers. __________ fcw.com FCW MARCH 30, 1998 Intercepts BY BOB BREWIN

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1353)	3/31/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

'Implementation date Nov. 5, 1999 ********************* The General Accounting Office, which testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee last week, is also worried. A system at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for example, processes payments of about $354 million a month. The system is already 75 days behind schedule for remediation, making its implementation date Nov. 5, 1999. A little more schedule slippage, the GAO warned, and "the economic repercussions could be widespread." **************************** I wonder how far behind they are if they include a minumum of testing and reworking (and then testing of the reworking)? A "little more schedule slippage" possible for the Government of the US of A? Nahhhhh! I refuse to believe it. I know Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and all the software pros are always late, but the Gumment? Nahhhh. - pl techweb.com ********************** ______ From: paul leblanc <pleblan9@idt.net> Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 Subject: GAO on HUD Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 23:25:04 -0500