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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (460)	6/10/1998 4:42:00 AM
From: RagTimeBand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

>>CSIS will be posting a transcript of the conference here. csis.org << David, thanks for the info. I see that this coming Friday, the U.S. Senate's Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem will be holding a hearing to examine how the year 2000 computer conversion will affect utilities and the national power grid. Hopefully C-SPAN will cover this.

To: Mighty_Mezz who wrote (460)	6/21/1998 12:21:00 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 618

Transcript of CSIS Conference is up. Here's a snippet: MR. WEBSTER: I did a little math exercise the other day. Let's just talk about the embedded systems problem. Gartner Group says there's four billion embedded systems out in the world. I don't think anyone knows, but that's what the Gartner Group says. Let's say that by sheer brilliance and inspection we can set aside three-fourths of those so we know there's only a billion embedded systems we need to worry about. That means that in order to test just half of those between now and the end of next year, we have to test 800,000 each and every day, weekends and holidays included. Who is doing that? Where is that work being done? Read it all at: csis.org