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

To: TD who wrote (1498)	4/29/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Joe Dancy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Fed predicts Y2000 problem to cost $50B: usatoday.com Joe

To: TD who wrote (1498)	5/1/1998 5:24:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

[DESKTOP] 'All platforms vulnerable to Y2K By CHRIS MORRIS 28apr98 IT IS now just over 18 months until the year 2000. The Australian IT industry is in a frenzy over the Y2K issue, and the Federal Government has belatedly announced an awareness campaign. Most Australian user organisations have started their Y2K conversion efforts. The primary focus has been on legacy applications, because most people believe that all the problems lie in old mainframe applications. But as the initial application inventory phase of conversion projects is being completed, it is becoming apparent to many people that all computing platforms are affected. One major area of risk is applications developed by end-users. Mission-critical applications developed by information systems (IS) groups are usually well documented and follow basic applications development standards. But end-user-developed applications are mostly generated without any guidance from IS, and have rarely been documented or tested. Although often of low quality, these applications are commonly used by all levels of staff to make decisions about how the business will be run on a daily basis. These end-user-developed applications have generally been considered unimportant in Y2K conversions by IS organisations, but they are coming to recognise their organisations' dependence on them, and the level of business exposure they bring if they are not Y2K-compliant. In the course of a recent Y2K planning exercise, one GartnerGroup client with about 2200 end-users was shocked to find that there were 13,000 end-user-developed applications within the organisation. theaustralian.com.au