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Technology Stocks : INFORMATION ANALYSIS (IAIC) - YEAR 2000 Date Remediation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Matthew F. Kern who wrote (1530)	4/25/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2011

Matt: Excellent writeup on the "state of the environment(s)". It was all so much easier when there were only a few languages. Like, IBM's 360 Assembler. And nothing else. Ahhhh, so those were the days. Why, back when I was a boy ... TED

To: Matthew F. Kern who wrote (1530)	4/26/1998 8:41:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 2011

Assuming real high reliability vendors and engineers with a view toward high reliability products fix CORBA, lots of mainframe COBOL may move to UNIX and NT boxes just after 2000. How? Maybe UNICAST. That is what CAST did before Y2K, take code in one computer language and 'rewrite' it in another. But can CAST take a standard mainframe implementation of COBOL and make is "object-oriented"? Can it create APIs (expose interfaces)? Will it target CORBA on Unix, or, COM on NT? Are you presuming the two standards will merge at some point? What about thin client internet stuff? Is IAIC currently doing (serious) R&D in these areas, or are they waiting until Y2K work slows down? I tend to think smart Y2K companies loaded with cash will be smart to start looking at fledging "e-commerce" companies who are spending all of their time and resources in this area-- and acquire them. The two industries would be a perfect match, IMO. - Jeff