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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (1194)2/10/1999 5:23:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1361
 
I like this part the best:

>>>>>The fact that 80 percent of small businesses haven't even begun to address the Y2K issue doesn't bother de Jager. "Twenty-one percent don't even use a computer," he points out to FT, "and the rest use PC-based packaged software, which is easy to upgrade." <<<<<

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year2000.dci.com



To: Bill Wexler who wrote (1194)2/14/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid  Respond to of 1361
 
Frankly speaking: Your best friend

www2.idg.com.au

>>>>BOSTON - If you thought we were already hip-deep in Y2K-related baloney, better brace yourself. After years of denying that year 2000 will cause any problems for their computer systems, lots of IT people have now realised that almost anything can be blamed on the millennium bug. Suddenly, instead of a threat, Y2K is everybody's best friend.<<<<




To: Bill Wexler who wrote (1194)2/26/1999 1:15:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1361
 
Lee Commission: Firm's estimate for Y2K work questioned :

naplesnews.com



>>>>"I didn't do this to pick a fight," Wilkinson said. "But I couldn't sit back and watch what we perceived as a rip-off. I'm not alleging a scam, but when you just look at their numbers, it wasn't going to take any 14,600 man hours to do, and they knew that."<<<