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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2504)	8/30/1998 8:17:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

VERY INTERESTING: FRB Y2k Video and Audio - Senator Bennett Q+A continued... 'The testing phase is the most time consuming' 'March 1999 is the target for compliance for gov systems; otherwise not enough time for proper testing - it is the right target' 'Microsoft lives in an entirely different computing environment than e.g. FAA - MS is in the world of interconnected PC's - they can be fixed a lot easier than big iron' 'CEO makes the difference - this is a management problem - do you allow your CIO to make the priorisation choices? -> no of course not' - hiring practices; what projects have to be killed; what products will not be offered anymore - all CEO decisions' 'We can not go back to manual alternatives - e.g. type writers: you first have to find one - railroad switches: manuals are not there anymore - skills, equipment are gone' 'Editorial I most want to see in 1/5/2000: 'Senator Bennett was the biggest alarmist, nothing has happened; and we should not have listened to him'