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To: Tech Master who wrote (5981)	4/30/1998 9:39:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10786

I spent two days in NYC at a conference which focused on economics, insurance, law, and programming aspects of Y2K. All the "experts" agreed, and backed their words up with statistics, that the world is in denial about its Y2K problem. One speaker was a Managing Director for Morgan Stanley on Y2K. He was the lone dissenter saying that his data showed a problem, but a manageable one. I asked him who in an organization he talked to. He said "CIOs". I asked if he had talked to engineers-- the people who really knew what was going on-- and he said he had not. I asked him what made him think a CIO would tell someone with the power to buy and sell millions of shares of their stock that there was a problem? Duh. The speaker did have a good sense of humor about the grilling he took from the audience and all the smirking. He said among his colleagues he was considered the "crazy one" for thinking there was a problem at all! So, as Thump9 so eloquently pointed out, this is a problem you can't deny. At some point you either ask for help or you risk the fatal consequences. The fact that ALYD and thousands of other Y2K vendors and industry pundits are way ahead of the curve should not be held against them. Show me someone on the general Y2K thread who believe Y2K is a major problem who predicted the "floodgates" would not be open by now. But, despite corporate malaise regarding Y2K, ALYD continues to grow at a tremendous rate. What happens when corporate America wakes up? - Jeff