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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr Logic who wrote (11557)	5/14/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Steve Woas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Patrick, The world doesn't run on little computers. Why don't you just contact the IRS, FAA, and discuss the brilliant idea of purchasing a Y2K compliant package? It will make their day Patrick! Good Luck, Steve

To: Mr Logic who wrote (11557)	5/23/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: Steve Woas	Respond to of 13949

Patrick, You said, " If you disagree, fine, but how about some substance to your post? " --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "To say that a global company could replace all of their legacy systems with SAP now would not be very practical," says Eileen Basho, executive VP of SAP America." techweb.com

To: Mr Logic who wrote (11557)	5/23/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Steve Woas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13949

Patrick, "Recent research from International Data Corp (IDC) shows clearly that IT spending patterns have already begun to change - and will continue to do so - as a direct result of the Year 2000. According to IDC analyst Tim Oleson, the average US company will dedicate 52.6% of its IT budget for 1998 to solving Year 2000 problems. That means IS managers must cut back elsewhere - and the area that is suffering the most as a result is application software. According to Oleson, of those companies that are planning cutbacks in IT expenditure in order to divert resources, 67% of companies are doing so on application software projects, compared to 63.8% on end-user hardware upgrades, 63.7% on network upgrades, 63% on server and host hardware, and 56% on infrastructural systems software such as Windows NT and databases." gtbusiness.com