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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (1520)	5/1/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Cheryl, You're right. Well, it still is better than his position 6-12 months ago ('y2k is no problem at all; no y2k problems in Microsoft products; 'some bugs in windows3.11; you just have to migrate to windows95'; 'just migrate all mainframe stuff to Windows NT and you will be fine'). That has disappeared. You have to know that basically, Microsoft just is not familiar with Big iron; enterprise computing etc). Is it simply not in their culture; the leaders at MSFT did not grow up in that environment. The last couple of years they are trying to get into the door of enterprise computing (using alliances with e.g. Digital); and they are starting to succeed it that. Still...it will take another 6-10 years before they might succeed (without taking y2k into account). He will regret not taking leadership in Y2K; American public will ask all industry and political leaders 'why this could happen' in 2000/2001. Those without a good answer will disappear from the limelight IMO. Regards, John