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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (3506)	1/31/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: Jeff Redman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

"P.S. Aren't you the programmer who works for some retail company? From what I remember, your company is farther ahead than most. Seems I remember your name from a couple of years ago, when there was a lot of technical discussion on Y2K Investment thread. Have you talked to the programming departments for all of your suppliers to see how they're doing? Might find some surprises there." Yes I am, and yes we have talked to all of our vendors. Let's see in 99 the predictions were that programs looking ahead to 2000 would crash, they did not, we and no problems and neither did our vendors, our store shelves are being stocked. We did have problems in 98 looking 2 years ahead and our distribution facilities went down for the weekend, but we got them going again. All of the programs that look ahead and that had the year 99 "hardcoded" for some end of file condition, etc., have been fixed and turned over and all are working. We have a lab with a Mainframe LPR, all client/server networks, etc., running in the year 2000, with no problems. We are testing with all of our major vendors, banks, etc. We are a grocery and general merchandise retailer with stores of over 200,000 sq. ft. and about 120,000 items on hand. We deal with most of the major vendors in the retail industry. Our programs are fixed and in production on time and under budget. By the way, our top 20 suppliers, 80% of our sales, are doing just fine too. o.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (3506)	1/31/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Jeff Redman	Respond to of 9818

"This is how I understood just how bad this whole embedded system thing was." By the way, we lead the retail industry in automation (according to IBM who is one of our vendors) Wal-Mart is trying to catch up to our distribution facilities by copying what we do. All of our embedded systems were checked and tested, no problems were found. Another prediction, COBOL programmers would be in short supply and making over $100,000. Did not happen, according to Computerworld article from 2 weeks ago. I can only dream of that six figure income that will not come. We have plenty of COBOL programmers, along with others, many in their 20's, still learning the language in College.