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To: John Mansfield who wrote (108)	8/6/1998 2:50:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 151

'Our Time Bomb 2000! book has now sold more than 100,000 copies, and ranked #4 on the New York Times business best-seller list for the month of July; it was #23 on the New York Times overall list of best-selling books for the week of July 27-31 (while you're at it, track down the lead editorial, "The Millennium Bug Looms," in the Sunday, August 2, 1998 issue of the New Y ork Times; access to the web site requires a free registration, you'll have to search for the editorial by title in their archives). In addition, Time Bomb 2000 recently ranked #4 on the Publisher's Weekly best-seller list of computer books, and Amazon has listed the book as one of its top 10 non-fiction paperback best-sellers each week since the beginning of January 1998. You can order copies from Amazon, Prentice Hall, Barnes & Noble, Borders, or your favorite book store. yourdon.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (108)	8/9/1998 2:14:00 PM
From: Kevin Michael	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 151

Just because a Y2k portfolio is not performing does not mean that the year 2000 is not a big thing! At one point though a Y2k portfolio was great to have until earnings disappointments occurred probably due to too many competitors and not enough businesses were fixing their systems. I am not recommending anyone to buy TAVA, but do you honestly think they would be getting all of this business if the year 2000 was a scam. Even Wall Street itself had to update its systems so that there will be a smooth transition in market trading for the year 2000. Before they spent all of this money into fixing the problem, don't you think they researched the problem themselves first? I would assume that they ran initial test and found that their systems would not be able to function properly in the year 2000. Sorry, I don't think we are looking at a billion dollar scam here other than the fact that new computer systems should have had 4 digit dates a long time ago. Just my opinion KM