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To: Ian@SI who wrote (20508)	6/17/1998 5:59:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

Ian - OT Y2K. My concern about Y2K is that too many of the companies only pay lip service to it. Many haven't spent more than a few dollars assessing the problems. They are too busy with more immediate problems (e.g. Asia). From people I know in the software industry, no one is doing much of anything. It isn't that it is inherently a huge problem, just that if you are unprepared, ... . The reasons for my concern: 1) At the last conference on Y2K (broadcast on C-Span) there was not one speaker from a major company describing how they had fixed their problems. 2) I still see people who should know better say that they aren't going to do anything until there is a generic fix created (as if such a thing were possible for custom code). 3) GM, as an example, has allocated $500M dollars for this problem but has spent $50M to date. So, when is it going to be a priority? Clark