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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (3961)	2/18/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

Home Largely Immune to Millennium Bug latimes.com

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (3961)	2/18/1999 2:37:00 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

From Rodney Victor, our man in South Africa: -------------------------------- Y2K-NOTREADY by Phaphama Blom CAPE TOWN Feb 18 Sapa FIVE GOVT DEPTS NOT READY FOR YEAR 2000: AUD-GEN At least five government departments ‹ health, defence, transport, labour and justice ‹ have not yet completed the task of making their computer systems Year 2000 compliant. Failure to do so will leave them vulnerable to problems associated with the so-called Millenium Bug, and could result in some of their activities and functions which depend on computer back-up grinding to a halt in January next year. The problems the five departments appear to be experiencing in achieving full Year 2000 compliance came to light on Wednesday with the tabling in Parliament of a follow-up report by the auditor-general on the impact of the Year 2000 on computer systems in national departments and provincial administrations The report said the departments had cited time constraints, insufficient funds, and lack of manpower and resources, as the main reasons for not being ready in time. Contacted by Sapa for comment, spokesman for the auditor-general¹s office Louis van Rooyen said the departments ran the risk of not being ready by the end of the year. "Their progress is inadequate... even in the assessment phase... there is risk that they will not be compliant by the Year 2000," he said. Health department spokesman Khangelani Hlongwane told Sapa that just over half the department¹s computers were Year 2000 compliant. (bold italics mine) "Yes, we are not ready... about 45 percent of our computers are not ready, but we hope to be 100 percent by September this year," Hlongwane said. The auditor-general¹s report also said that although the office of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki had ‹ in September, 1997 -- indicated it was Year 2000 compliant, it had now admitted that new equipment needed to be bought to achieve this compliance. The trade and industry department, South African Police Service, independent complaints directorate, and the provincial administrations of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape and Western Cape had not responded to a questionnaire sent out in September last year by the Y2K Centre, and their progress to date on the Year 2000 compliance was therefore unknown, the report said. Spokesmen for the deputy president¹s office and the defence departments were not immediately available for comment. Sapa /pb/rod 02/18/99 16-55

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (3961)	2/25/1999 10:09:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

ComputerWorld -- The wackier side of Y2K emerges computerworld.com Ten months from now, the year 2000 computer problem might not be a laughing matter, but what some view as a potential global disaster has become for others the inspiration for song lyrics, haiku (yes, haiku), bad poems, tacky contests and other assorted wacky diversions. [...]