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To: Jalali who wrote (4411)	6/25/1998 11:29:00 PM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4571

Jalali: Aw, you just posted that to get post #4411. A double-double. TED

To: Jalali who wrote (4411)	6/30/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: Allan F	Respond to of 4571

from wired.com Bulgarian programmers to the rescue: George Soros has a cheap plan to put Bulgarian programmers to work and beat back the millennium bug. The international financier and philanthropist has offered to pitch in $3 million to set up a company in the former Soviet research empire to tackle things like the Year 2000 problem and the euro currency conversion. The project will be undertaken with the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, which will provide the plant and infrastructure and will own 15 percent of the venture, to be called Rila Software. It will employ 500 of Bulgaria's 7,000 software professionals. Bulgarian Telecommunications board chairman Grosdan Karadzhov said one of Soros' reasons for setting up the Sofia plant was expertise and cheap labor. Programming salaries in Bulgaria are about one-fifith of those in the West. Earlier this year, the National Laboratory of Computer Virology, along with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, said it had found a way of dealing with the millennium bug. The head of the laboratory has said the cure was found during work to find ways of countering computer viruses, many of which originated in Bulgaria. /************************************************/ Now wasn't Soros on DDIM's Board? LOL -Allan