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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2433)	8/21/1998 6:10:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

'Delivery of food Our primary concern involves deliveries, both to the neighborhood grocery store, and to the fast-food outlets that some citizens have come to depend upon [3] . Fresh food, by its very nature, has to be replenished and re-stocked on a frequent basis. Many other forms of food (including the hamburger patties at your favorite junk-food emporium) are frozen, and thus could presumably be stockpiled to provide ongoing supplies of food for months or years. But both the hamburger outlets and the grocery stores operate on razor-thin profit margins, which requires keeping low inventories and using a "just-in-time" (JIT) delivery mechanism to restock on a daily or weekly basis. ... yourdon.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2433)	8/21/1998 6:32:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'... Internal report shows DOD miscalculated number of Y2K-compliant systems BY BOB BREWIN (antenna@fcw.com) The Defense Department has grossly overestimated the number of mission-critical systems that it reported as having fixed for the Year 2000 bug, according to a recent report released by the Pentagon's inspector general. Of the 430 systems that DOD reported as Year 2000-compliant in November 1997, the IG found that only 109, or 25 percent, had been properly certified as Year 2000-compliant. The report on mission-critical systems criticized the armed services and Defense agencies such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) -- which operates DOD's worldwide networks, the Global Command and Control System and DOD mainframe processing centers -- "for not complying with Year 2000 certification criteria before reporting systems as compliant." ... fcw.com