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Technology Stocks : 2000 Date-Change Problem: Scam, Hype, Hoax, Fraud -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jwk who wrote (855)	9/13/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1361

Given that this article is from the major paper in the major city in the state where a major software company and tons of its affilitates have a whole lot of people working in tech related jobs, I thought this article provided an interesting alternative perpsective to the THERE IS NO PROBLEM, IT'S ALL HYPE point of view. seattletimes.com Not that the folks in the following group cited in the article might have as realistic grasp on the situation as some self-proclaimed experts here do, but......... >>>-- Infrastructure. The Puget Sound Year 2000 Organization (PSY2KO), a loose-knit group of technology professionals, gathers monthly to trade information. At their August meeting, they expressed concern over the reliability of power and telecommunications networks. "Seattle City Light may have done an awesome job," noted Barry Wilber, PSY2KO spokesman and Y2K program manager for Weyerhaeuser, "but if they're all interconnected on a (power) grid" and one or more smaller utilities fail, will the whole system go down? <<<