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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (534)	7/26/1998 5:18:00 PM
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'If you've got one vendor who is a crack evaluator of embedded systems, but does not have the personnel to remediate the problem systems, perhaps it makes sense to hire a second company for the remediation, but provide enough work from site to site to keep the first vendor busy for the next year. ... After six months of their research, they sent out an RFP to the vendors that they were still interested in. They will begin their project in August, eight months after they recognized that they had a problem. I'm sure that they have a greater chance of success due to their initial investment in time, but should they fail or encounter delays (as many project do) they will have eight less months to fix the work. ... y2ktimebomb.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (534)	7/27/1998 1:28:00 PM
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'Doctors want list of Y2K-affected devices WASHINGTON - Doctors and hospitals asked Congress to force manufacturers to reveal which of the nation's medical devices could be rendered useless by the Year 2000 computer glitch. Senators sharply criticized companies during a hearing Thursday for ignoring repeated appeals by hospitals and the Food and Drug Administration to declare which products need fixing. But the FDA says that so far it does not appear the millennium glitch will cause a crisis for patients. Nobody's pacemaker is going to fail because the millennium arrives, testified Dr. Michael Friedman, the FDA's acting commissioner. Pacemakers and the vast majority of other medical devices don't need to know the date to work, he said. But Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said that without a full industry accounting, life-threatening problems could occur that the FDA does not know about. However, he acknowledged that he does not think anyone will die because of Year 2000 problems with medical equipment. ''It is serious, but we ought not to be putting people in a sense of panic,'' Dodd said. ... usatoday.com