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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2577)	9/14/1998 12:15:00 AM
From: Investor-ex!	Respond to of 9818

John, In case you missed it, here are Dr. Ed Yardeni's corporate earnings forecasts for the quarters leading up to and beyond 2000 from last June. Go to page 3 and note the 11% decline in Q4/99 and the huge 20-30% declines starting in 2000. (This link requires that you have a PDF reader installed as a plug-in). yardeni.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2577)	9/14/1998 1:48:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

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." ESQUIRE MAGAZINE - October '98