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To: JDN who wrote (27333)	2/2/1999 12:02:00 AM
From: Karl Drobnic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

RE JJ's "guy running 5 or 6 dry cleaning shops": Sen. Bond of Missouri has introduced a bill earmarking SBA funds specifically to guarantee Y2k repairs. Sen. Bond says up to 4.75 million small businesses are at risk. Many are service businesses where the Y2k problems are software problems. The Portland OR SBA office has been offering Y2k seminars on Friday afternoons since October; only 45 people have attended. So the SBA has been going out speaking to Chambers of Commerce around the state. The SBA has a CD-ROM available that checks computers for compliance. Apparently nothing to check embedded chips. So the SBA has a mechanism and the will to reach out to small businesses, and if even 10% are manufacturing enterprises, that would be a potential market of 475,000 for JJ's "guy running dry cleaning shops" CD. Looks like a good fit here, with loan money from the government to ice the cake.