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To: AD who wrote (1411)	9/12/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Ruyi	Respond to of 1654

The shift is going from replace to repair.First, the rush to replace systems may have created a bubble of demand that will now dissipate. Second, corporate technology spending will focus more on fixing 2000 concerns, diverting funds from other projects. Estimates are U.S. companies will spend US$300 billion this year on the 2000 problem.The average Fortune 500 firm has completed about half its millennium work. Previous estimates were that only 5% of the cost of 2000 fixes would come from existing technology spending. That could be shifting as the turmoil in equity markets and global economic conditions put pressure on corporate budgets.

To: AD who wrote (1411)	9/14/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Ruyi	Respond to of 1654

Bill Gates is not going to fix it. "The decision makers of the world think there is someone sitting in their basement eating Twinkies and hasn't seen the sun in days who is going to fix it," says Jason Matusow, Microsoft's Year 2000 strategy manager. "There is no silver bullet. There is no one company or person who can do it." And this from the company that, above all others, might reasonably be expected to downplay problems with its products. "Anybody who has spent significant time working on this," he adds, "will recognize that the problem is as serious as anyone has said it could be."

To: AD who wrote (1411)	9/15/1998 10:58:00 PM
From: Ruyi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1654

Forecross Corporation is in Paris September 30th until October 2nd, 1998. Forecross has been doing Database Migrations and Legacy Language Conversions in France for over 6 years. Among its clientel are Alcatel and its partners, IBM France, and NGSET. Forecross staff have over 15 years of working with French Code and ISO rated French characters. Forecross has native French speaking Technical, Development, Sales, and Administrative staff to help facilitate language translations, contract languages, and billing systems. Forecross also has a San Francisco backbone T-1 service connection, which facilitates the transfer of code between clients and our in-house Automated Migration and Year 2000 Conversion Factories.