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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2881)	11/30/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'Uninteresting French Y2K governmental and official links We - French people - are not able to address the Y2K issue, but we are very good at discussing it... "The Year 2000 question is a conspiracy cooked up by the Americans and the British to create a smokescreen and distract attention away from preparations for the single European currency" (said a French banker in September 1998). "The problems we expect are negligible and will not destabilise the economy. Doomsday predictions are aimed to sell IT services (Christian Pierret, French industry ministry in May 1998). "I'm more concerned by the 'bug de l'an 2000' than by the economic health of our country" (French president Jacques Chirac joking with students in June 1998). "We must (...) not dramatize" (Gerard Thery, "Mr. Y2K and Euro", in February 1998). Now, if you really want some very boring French links : French Prime Minister realizes finally something should perhaps be done... French Industry Ministry has launched the French Y2K Mission (I wonder why they call it "urgence 2000" ?). French an 2000 Celebration Mission and its stupid projects. (let's celebrate our failures ?). French official Celebration Mission. They have a think tank, we are saved ! CIGREF (Club Informatique des GRandes Entreprises Françaises) is practising wishful thinking. .... ourworld.compuserve.com