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

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (4160)	2/27/1999 11:44:00 AM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Jeff: In regards to your posting that some system licenses are rendered invalid by user date testing - I am still astonished that the Wall Street Journal is publishing 'test it yourself' guidelines for PC users. You know, just turn the date forward, turn the PC off and then on again and check all of your applications. Karl Feilder, who is the CEO of GMT (Check 2000 PC) told me almost a year ago that many common PC apps will essentially be frozen if you create a transaction in the year 2000 and then try to restart them in 1999. Makes sense if you understand the inner workings of computers, file synchronization, etc. So you follow the advice of the Wall Street Journal and create unrecoverable problems in your PC applications. What is depressing to me is that most of the press (this includes the technology press) still doesn't even begin to understand the technical depth of the Y2K problem. Heck, Red Herring Magazine's March issue has an article that says that Y2K is only a problem in COBOL and only in 'old mainframe systems'. How can we address the risk posed by Y2K if the 'experts' don't even begin to understand how pervasive it is?