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To: J.D.R. who wrote (1434)	9/23/1998 2:58:00 PM
From: Juraj (Yuri) Krajci	Respond to of 1654

Well said. My sentiments exactly. Cheers Crandy! Ure

To: J.D.R. who wrote (1434)	9/23/1998 8:33:00 PM
From: Ruyi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1654

Forecross Corporation Announces Y2K Project With Quality Systems and a Legacy Migration Project With Charles Schwab today. Formerly known as Tracor, Inc., Quality Systems is now a subsidiary of Marconi North America, a subsidiary of General Electric Company, p.l.c. (''GEC''). Under this contract, Forecross will use its Complete/2000(sm) solution and automated factory in San Francisco to bring into year 2000 compliance certain applications belonging to Montgomery County, Maryland, a client of Quality Systems Inc. The customer's code is IMS ADF/II, an IBM language originally written in the 1970s. The Company will contract with Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. (NYSE:SCH - news) to migrate this contract is important because it is the first Y2K automated project renovating this computer language. Forecross Corporation also announced today that it has signed another additional IDMS applications to DB2. This is the third legacy migration contract that Forecross has signed with Charles Schwab in the past 18 months.

To: J.D.R. who wrote (1434)	9/25/1998 4:25:00 PM
From: Juraj (Yuri) Krajci	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1654

EXPERTS WARN OF THREAT FROM 100GB BUG Experts warned today of a new and deadly threat to our beleaguered civilization: the 100GB Bug. As most people know, McDonald's restaurant signs show the number of hamburgers the giant chain has sold. That number now stands at 99 billion burgers, or 99 Gigaburgers (GB). Within months or even weeks, that number will roll over to 100GB. McDonald's signs, however, were designed years ago, when the prospect of selling one hundred billion hamburgers seemed unthinkably remote. So the signs have only two decimal places. This means that, after the sale of the 100 billionth burger, McDonald's signs will read "00 Billion Burgers Sold." This, experts predict, will convince the public that, in over thirty years, no McDonald's hamburgers have ever in fact been sold, causing a complete collapse of consumer confidence in McDonald's products. The ensuing catastrophic drop in sales is seen as almost certain to force the already-troubled company into bankruptcy. This, in turn, will push the teetering American economy over the brink, which, finally, will complete the total devastation of the global economy, ending civilization as we know it, and forcing us all to live on beetles. "The people who know - the sign-makers - are really scared of 100GB," One expert said. "I don't know about you, but I'm digging up a copy of THE FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS and heading for the hills."