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

To: Christine Traut who wrote (1421)	4/10/1998 6:38:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Christine - fixing Y2K problems by replacing desktops One of the major problems surrounding Y2K on the desktop to-date is that most of the debate has narrowly focused on the silly BIOS issue, which is a major red hearring. As you point out there are very simple workarounds. So far there has been almost zero discussion of the fact that applications (the software & the data) on PCs are just the same as on mainframes. If written right they're likely to be Y2Kok. If not you've got problems. Y2Kok mainframe apps were written in the '60s. Y2Kbogus PC apps are being written as I write this. What I was trying to talk about was the need to replace entire core applications... accounting, inventory, etc... with Y2Kok apps. There is a PC (Wintel, Mac, Unix, TRS80, Amiga, etc.) software catalog that lists 3056 publishers & 21,000 titles in 350 different catagories. Granted not all of these are business oriented. Then factor in the non-commercial & dead-vendor apps still running... there are tons of software out there. I'm betting there will be complete bundles... hardware, software & local consulting all in one package. Personally I regard the BIOS topic as not worthy of serious discussion at this date. Fixing the BIOS issue does nothing to address the application that the business is dependant upon. - David