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Gold/Mining/Energy : CGI Group (GIB.A) - -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Clive H. who wrote (555)	7/22/1998 1:32:00 PM
From: NICVIC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1673

Hi Clive, Not necessarily so... Once they get in to fix the millenium bug, there will be a very good chance that they will get other business. Once companies get their mission-critical systems Y2K compliant, they will want to get their non-mission critical systems Y2K complaint. There will also be contracts to maintain the systems that companies just spent real cash to become complaint. Who would be good candidates to get this business? Why, the personnel who just modified the system, of course! True, the demand for COBOL programmers might decrease after the Year 2000 crunch, but they will still be a required resource in many mainframe shops for years to come. Frank

To: Clive H. who wrote (555)	7/22/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Gary H	Respond to of 1673

Clive, It has been reported by numerous sources that the Y2K problem will not end on 2000/01/01. The problem is expected to carry on for another 2 yrs in tappering degrees of severity. The surprise could come and probably will come when Y2K compliant CO. who are dependent on Co. who are not Y2K compliant. This is where the whole thing could break down causing a domino effect. Will this actually happen? Tune in to-morrow(any time between now and 2000) for the results. Cheers, (I think) PS The last I heard, was that CGI had an average of 7.5 yr contrcts which involved more then the Y2K.