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

To: John Mansfield who wrote (3049)	12/26/1998 5:34:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

year2000.epriweb.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (3049)	12/26/1998 6:08:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

'Peter De Jager appears in Jan. 1999 Scientific American; there is a sidebar article that is very interesting -- here it is: sciam.com sciam.com The Bottom Line for Y2K in the U.S. Best Case Expected Case Worst Case Software applications with Y2K problems 10 million 12 million 15 million Percent of Y2K problems that will not be fixed in time 5% 15% 25% Infrastructure failures because of Y2K* Power systems 5% 15% 75% Transportations systems 5% 12% 50% Telephone systems 5% 15% 65% *Percent of households that will be affected -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: SOFTWARE PRODUCTIVITY RESEARCH/ARTEMIS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roleigh Martin ourworld.compuserve.com ( easy to remember alias is: webalias.com )