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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2085)	7/6/1998 5:08:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'Microsoft not Y2K ready; key apps offer confusing fixes 'Problems also reside within server applications, such as Microsoft's SQL Server database which won't recognize the year 2000 as a leap year. "Our clients are hospitals and we use Access for the front end, VB [Visual Basic] as the middle tier, and SQL Server on the back end. We [may] have some real problems," said Randy Hartwig, a senior developer at Stockamp & Associates, in Lake Oswego, Ore. Hartwig cites potential problems such as patients checking out of the hospital before they are born, bills being overdue before they are sent out and children born in the year 2000 may have a birth record that will show they were born in 1900. ... infoworld.com