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To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (19018)	6/23/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 31646

Remember CK telling about Kraft presentation? Here is some more... '------------ Electric Utilities and Y2K Rick Cowles, best known for his books and articles on the power industry, talked about fast track remediation strategies for dealing with embedded control systems. Rick's main point was that for large, or embedded heavy enterprises, there is very little time left. If they aren't deep into the inventory and analysis phase, they will probably have to look at bringing in a solutions provider to help. He had copies of his new book, Electric Utilities and Y2k. You can find his book at: year2000.com , and Rick's web site on Electric Utilities and Year 2000 is at:http://www.euy2k.com/ . ------------ Krafting a Y2K Solution The next session was put on by Evan Hand, a Kraft engineer who talked about what Kraft was doing about its embedded systems problems. Kraft Foods has more than fifty manufacturing and distribution centers and more than 50 co-manufacturers with over 55,000 potential problems. They also have to assure the compliance of 5000 vendor products. At the beginning of his talk, Mr. Hand told the audience that he would give them an overall view of the remediation effort at Kraft, then he would get into specifics and give them the actual numbers. Kraft has already had some year 2000 problems surface. Several million dollars worth of food was destroyed because the food expiration date was after the millennium. Because of two digit date encoding, the warehouse had processed the shipments as expired anddestroyed them. The management objective at Kraft was to have continued operation with minimal impact to the facilities and at minimal cost. Kraft also decided to introduce a radically different way of dealing with their year 2000 problem. They are talking openly about it. Many large manufacturers have similar problems, but Kraft is the first one I have heard of who has implemented an open door policy. Kraft is telling what they are doing and why, and also detailing the tools they are using. They are sharing their compliance database with their vendors and their test criteria with their vendors, business partners, and the public. The engineers convinced the legal staff it was the only way they could fix the problems. And the Legal department let them do it. Mr. Hand then gave out the numbers. Kraft has tested 832 Programmable Logic Controllers so far and had found 10% of them to have a date capability, a higher number then they had initially estimated. He also talked about what kind of problem the tested machines had such as a subtraction problem or date roll over. At Kraft, the PLCs control safety and food production, so any glitch will shut down the whole line. The audience was very appreciative of Kraft's effort and their willingness to share the results. Several people commented that it was the best presentation they had seen. Mr. Hand didn't minimize the legal problems. He couldn't tell their target date for full compliance at the conference because Kraft's lawyers insisted that announcing any date before December 31, 1999 would put them in legal jeopardy if any systems encountered problems after that date. There is also a thicket of disclaimers around their knowledge sharing, but it is working. ' From www.year2000.com newsletter

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (19018)	6/23/1998 7:25:00 PM
From: sammaster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

someone mentioned that the institutional percentage ownership went up while the price went down... this is easily explained by the fact that tava did not meet expectations and earnings were downgraded and so people dumped their stock and the shorters moved in....while tava sold their story to the institutions who were glad to buy the shares for cheap who look forward to the panic as 1999 nears and the real hype begins and the profits roll in for tava...even if the profits don't roll in as fast as we tava longs would like i think just the y2k hype by the media itself will make us rich. samir

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (19018)	6/23/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: airborn	Respond to of 31646

I agree and that's why I am going to hang in there, just last week I was ready to sell my share's of SYNT because the stock was going no where, just drifting lower everyday, yesterday Synt was up almost $2.00 and today it was up 3 @ 5/8, BOY am I glad I did not sell, I hope to repeat the same story with TAVA........