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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2888)	12/2/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: jwk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 1998--As the world prepares to enter 1999, 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS) today announced a program designed to help medium- and small-sized businesses around the world avert one of the largest potential threats to smooth entry into the year 2000, the Y2K bug. 3Com, a global networking leader in small and medium enterprises, rolls out a worldwide, five-pronged program that will help raise appreciation of the Y2K crisis and give practical advice on how companies can avert data disaster. "Since all organizations are now inextricably linked through global data networks, our economic resistance to the millennium bug is only as strong as the weakest link in the supply chain," said 3Com Chairman and CEO Eric Benhamou in a keynote address in September 1998 to the Upside Summit '98 in Washington. "While Fortune 500 organizations and the government have devoted dollars and resources in pursuit of Y2K compliance, smaller enterprises often have no CIO to ask the right questions." "More businesses trust 3Com with their networks. 3Com has earned this trust with reliable and easy-to-use products," said Edgar Masri, 3Com general manager, Small and Medium Enterprise Business Unit. "3Com has a covenant with its customers that extends from this century to the next. 3Com will take the lead in helping its customers inoculate themselves from the threat of the Y2K bug." The so-called year 2000 problem arises because many older computer systems record dates using only the last two digits of the year. If left uncorrected, such systems could treat the year 2000 as the year 1900, generating errors or system crashes. 3Com is the CIO for its Small Business Customers -- Y2K and Other Programs Help with Real Business Issues "

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2888)	12/9/1998 9:41:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

FAA system crashes -- Y2K preview? computerworld.com Close call in air caused by computer glitch? By Kathleen Ohlson Two airplanes bound for Europe nearly collided off the coast of New York's Long Island Sunday night at about the same time a computer outage occurred at an air traffic control center in Nashua, N.H., according to an official statement from the Federal Aviation Administration. The two aircraft -- a Delta 767 bound for Zurich and a British Caledonian L-1011 headed for Manchester, England -- came within 1.07 miles of one another, but "the incident has not been directly attributed to the outage and is still under investigation," the FAA statement said. The near-miss occurred at the same time that the Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center experienced an outage -- from 9:35 p.m. to 10:05 p.m., the FAA said. An interface problem surfaced in the center's air traffic computer, which processes flight data information, forcing a switch to an independent backup system within several seconds, the agency said. Radar target information is updated every 12 seconds at remote radar sites, the FAA added. During the outage, controllers' problems were compounded when four computer keyboards used to oversee sectors locked. In addition, the "snitch" machine, which alerts the watch commander when planes are too close to one another, failed to work, said Michael Blake, regional vice president of the New England region for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). [...]