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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1779)	5/12/1998 4:41:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

[2001] 'It's 2001. Now what? Computer consultants say there will still be work after the bug is fixed ' ' Henry Breimhurst Staff Reporter Oh no, you're thinking. Not another story about the Year 2000 bug. Well, wipe those fears away. This story is about the year 2001. While companies around the world have been focusing on how to convert their older computers to correctly process the year code "00" as "2000" and not "1900," an entire industry has grown up around the conversion process. What will those companies do on Jan. 3, 2000? (Remember, Jan. 1 is a holiday and Jan. 2 falls on a Sunday that year.) Jeff Bakke, Year 2000 practice director for Eden Prairie-based SafeNet Software, has been asked that question plenty of times by inquisitive clients and others, and he has a ready answer: Work harder. "I think there's going to be a lot of SWAT-team work in 2000, 2001," he said. With organizations focusing on bringing crucial systems up to standard, some less-important systems are getting short shrift. "A lot of [companies] are going to fix things after they break." .... amcity.com