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

To: flatsville who wrote (3567)	2/2/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 9818

But then again, it is difficult to ignore the Asian situation and the global linkages issue when you can find info like this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday February 1, 9:31 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Y2K Could Worsen Asian Crisis SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 1999--According to the Y2K report in the January 1999 edition of Business 2.0, with the exception of South Korea, 50 percent of Asian companies will suffer at least one mission critical system failure at the turn of the millennium. In most countries the number is closer to 66 percent. In Japan two to three million person-months of labor will be required to alleviate the bug on an economy wide basis. Ninety-eight percent of the software found in China is pirated. This includes software found in most government offices and state-owned enterprises. This severely limits any technical support that might otherwise be available. Even if Asia starts pulling out of recession in 1999, Y2K is probably going send it back to square one. The Far East Daily (located at www.fareastdaily.org) monitors publicly traded companies and advises consumers on how economic issues in Asia are affecting the financial health of these companies. This no-charge service is designed to provide the individual investor with some of the same data available to stockbrokers and major institutions. FED believes that accurate and timely information is critical as the individual consumer begins to rely more on the Internet as a vehicle for investing. Based upon the FED survey the following companies are either unaffected or have contingencies in place to deal with the Asian flu: Parker Hannifin Corp. (NYSE:PH - news), Pioneer Hi Bred International (NYSE:PHB - news), Pier One Imports (NYSE:PIR - news), Rimase Corp. (Nasdaq:RIMG - news), Sanchez Computer Assoc. (Nasdaq:SCAI - news), School Specialty (Nasdaq:SCHS - news), Sofamor Dank Group (NYSE:SDG - news), Sunrise Technologies (Nasdaq:SNRS - news), Sundstand (NYSE:SNS - news), Sonat Inc. (NYSE:SNT - news). Visit the Far East Daily at www.fareastdaily.org to see how other companies measure up. This information is available free of charge at the Far East Daily (FED) Web site. FED is a consumer service that provides information to the general public free of charge. FED receives no compensation from any company discussed herein. The information presented on this site is believed to be accurate as of the date of publication; however, the FED and its employees hold no responsibility for the accuracy of statements and figures displayed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Far East Daily Sam Daniels, 888/610-7112