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To: Stephen O who wrote (22008)10/20/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Frederick Langford  Respond to of 116764
 
exchange2000.com
Fred



To: Stephen O who wrote (22008)10/20/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: Enigma  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 116764
 
Steven - Australia raised some hundreds of millions at the same time as cutting their reserves in the ground by billions - the inverse reserve triangle - the higher the price the further down the traingle you can go to count a mineable resource, and in the case of Australia the converse.. E



To: Stephen O who wrote (22008)12/30/1999 8:55:00 AM
From: long-gone  Respond to of 116764
 
Y2K: A never-ending story

December 28, 1999
Web posted at: 1:10 p.m. EST (1810 GMT)

by InfoWorld Staff
From...


(IDG) -- As millions celebrate the passing of the millennium, many IT workers will find themselves hunkered down with their computers, making sure the year-2000 fixes they've implemented for their enterprise applications -- spanning everything from enterprise resource planning to word processing -- work, and disasters are averted.

While the general consensus is that the doomsday predictions of a year ago are likely to prove unwarranted, there are bound to be last-minute emergencies that crop up from the unlikeliest of places.

What could arguably be called the biggest application development project of all time has all but wound to a close now, and there seems to be little left but the waiting as the clock ticks down to zero.

For instance, said Frank Gillett, industry analyst at Forrester Research, in Boston, although most database software has been "checked with a fine tooth comb" by vendors and customers alike, there are still potential data-related year-2000 issues that IT managers will have to cope with when the calendar turns.

Essential Guide

What will work
Airline
Medical
Banking
Energy
Telecom
Water & sewer
Computers
Government
Road/rail signals
Postal services
Public transport


Y2K & the World
Africa
Americas
Asia-Pacific
Europe
Middle East

Primer

Key Dates

The Bug and You

"The challenge here is not the individual products, but the interplay of a number of individual products," Gillett said.

In fact, year-2000 remediation work is likely to be with us for quite some time to come.(cont)
cnn.com