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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1859)	5/17/1998 6:41:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

[PC] 'Year 2000 Dilemma Reaches The PC techweb.com 'Year 2000 Dilemma Reaches The PC (05/01/98; 3:16 p.m. EST) By Tim Wilson, InternetWeek The din of warnings surrounding the year 2000 problem appears finally to have woken a dangerous sleeping giant -- the desktop computer. ... For most IT managers, the logic is mainframe and other host-oriented problems should be handled first, since they will take longest to fix. "There's this feeling that it might take a year to fix all the problems in a COBOL mainframe, but it only takes half a day to fix a PC," said Leon Kappelman, author of "The Year 2000 Problem: Strategies and Solutions From the Fortune 100." He added, "But if you have 160,000 PCs, that's 80,000 days of work -- a lot more time than you needed to fix the mainframe problems."