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To: Tim Czech who wrote (4609)	8/9/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: Kurt N	Respond to of 9440

>>PINC is a year 2000 company. they have software that is soon to be released that fixes the year 2000 bug.<< There is no silver bullet solution that fixes/solves the Y2k problem, and works like magic. Their software only fixes the hardware for IBM PC's by updating the BIOS (if it has flash RAM for software upgrades) or software that runs on bootup prior to Windows loading. y2k problem is a lot more than hardware. It does not fix application software!!!! Supposedly it scans the system (goes thru the hard-drive/Windows registry, i guess) to get a list of programs on the system and compares it to it's database. One of the steps of y2k is assesment 'figuring out what is and isn't compliant', so it may have value there. Most businesses have their mission critical enterprise data on Mainframes or more recent on Unix platforms or a combination of both. The applications that access that data may be legacy mainframe apps written in Cobol 30 years ago, or Client/Server apps written a couple of years ago, or both. And businesses share data between each other. It's a systemic problem, and hardware is one aspect but the software is the major aspect and interconnecting systems/data. They may have a place in y2k but not a big one (IMO). >>NOW IS TIME TO GET IN, BEFORE THE HYPE<< Couldn't agree more. Kurt