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To: zwing_88 who wrote (3769)	12/22/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: reg	Respond to of 37507

What about the cable/telephone companies? What about the electrical utilities? What about the supplier's, the shipper's, the credit card companies, the bank's, etc.

To: zwing_88 who wrote (3769)	12/22/1998 3:22:00 PM
From: waldo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37507

>>Internet commerce will almost certainly be unaffected, by Y2K, as they are recently developed companies. However, many catalog and traditional retailers have old Y2K non-compliant systems. This only means that the growth in internet commerce will be more rapid.<< Good point! Year 2000 Compliance The Company's Auction site has been developed to be fully year 2000 compliant. The application code was created using Microsoft Visual Interdev and all programmatic logic was specifically designed to support year 2000 date types. Both the up-front auction algorithms and the back-end credit card processing utilize full 8-digit fields. The underlying application data-base is Microsoft SOL Server Version 6.5, which has been verified to be fully compliant with year 2000 data types. The supporting hardware platform consists of Hewlett Packard Netservers, which are also created to be compatible with year 2000 date fields. Internal operations are supported by current generation PC equipment that has been verified to be year 2000 compliant. Finally, any custom applications created for internal use are also developed to accept year 2000 date types. W