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To: art slott who wrote (4368)	12/24/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Arrow Hd.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8218

I believe only the vendor's application program is "non compliant". IBM got named a defendent as leverage against the software vendor who probably is some kind of industry remarketer or a business partner. Looking through the article I see no IBM products that are non Y2K ready. But that said, in 1999 and in particular in the year 2000 we can expect IBM to be named as a defendent in a lot of these suits. Keep in mind that to have a succesful suit you need to show damages so most of the major litigation will happen after 1999. This suit is pre-emptive with its intent to get the software vendor to provide the fix or patch for free versus the couple of thousand dollar for charge solution. They just want a free fix. The nasty stuff is still to come.