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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (1454)	4/14/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Dan Hamilton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

TOP COMPUTING INTELLIGENCE FOR ENTERPRISE LEADERS FROM IDG.net Today's topic: Year 2000 Solutions for Tuesday, April 14 MICROSOFT WAKES UP TO Y2K PROBLEM (Source: InfoWorld Electric) Microsoft, thought by many to be a sleeping giant on the year-2000 issue, will awaken this week and unveil its strategy for dealing with millennium bugs in its products. idg.net GETTING SERIOUS WITH YEAR 2000: BUGS CAN SOMETIMES BE DEADLY (Source: InfoWorld Electric) On July 26, 1985, a 40-year-old patient at the Ontario Cancer Foundation in Hamilton positioned herself under a Therac-25 for a blast of radiation to her cancerous cervix. When the operator activated the Therac-25, it shut down with an error message: no dose. idg.net LAND O'LAKES DIVIDES AND CONQUERS Y2K (Source: InfoWorld Electric) The IT department at Land O'Lakes converted a 1994 request from business management for a complete supply chain and warehouse system overhaul into a year-2000 opportunity. idg.net IBM BROADENS Y2K TOOL LINE (Source: @Computerworld) IBM has added a number of new year 2000 tools, including two developed in collaboration with AllState Insurance Co. in Northbrook, Ill., and Bellcore, Inc. in Morristown, N.J. -- Millennium Date Compression Tool (MDCT) and C and C++ Maintenance and Test Toolsuite. idg.net AGENCIES RAMP UP Y2K OUTREACH PROGRAMS (Source: FCW) The federal government is stepping up its efforts to compel outside organizations that share data with agencies to fix their year-2000 computer problems, administration and agency officials told a congressional panel last week. idg.net