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To: bill718 who wrote (22528)	11/3/1998 5:42:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Respond to of 116762

Year 2000, EMU Cloud Technology Firms' Future dailynews.yahoo.com << ''Y2K spending was five percent of IT budgets in 1997, has risen to 21 percent in 1998, and will hit 44 percent in 1999,'' Clifford said. It's the number one item, ahead of everything else. It's the main issue of today and tomorrow. There are 424 days to go,'' he said. Gartner's Sondergaard said in his presentation that worldwide, state and local governments are most at risk from year 2000 problems because they reacted too late, have not arranged adequate funding, and are chronically understaffed. >> Hi Wayne, An article that I read some time ago pointed out that micro-controllers purchased from different component suppliers that manufactured under license, carried the same part number, but were not necessarily all Y2K compliant. They had examples of identical medical appliance models that were not uniformly Y2K compliant, so the only way to be sure was to test each one. What a mess! John