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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (633)	4/26/1998 2:46:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 1361

I can post MANY MANY more companies, who's products ARE year 2000 compliant. Yep they are Y2K compliant and they won't crash on Jan.1/2000.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (633)	4/26/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 1361

Sire - Have you heard of Eudora? One of the best e-mail software programs out there and they are going to enter the Year 2000 with NO problems. Yup... I use v3.1.1. Excellent product. Let me see... the desktop software encyclopedia I looked at listed some 3056 'publishers' with some 21,000 'titles.' Obviously lots of these are non-business related. But then again lots & lots of software never made it over the 'commercial' hurdle... meaning the they were written by good ol' cousin Charlie & installed at a half dozen sites. So let's net it out & guess there are some 20,000 active business titles out there... just on the desktop (Wintel, Unix, Mac, Amiga, Apple, & a few others). Bottom line... there's truck loads of software out there. And lots of it has absolutely zero vendor support, since the vendor has long since disappeared. Operative rule in lots of places is "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." SMEs (Brit for small, medium enterprise) tend to live on the trailing edge of technology. To the vast majority of the business world, I'd assume they regard computing technology as a necessary evil... they'd be more than happy to continue to use paper one-write systems if they could. - David