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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4505)	3/11/1999 2:14:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

>>>>''We will be confronted with one of the most serious and potentially devastating events this nation has ever encountered.'' <<<< Hummm, so I guess the Cuban Missile Crisis was not serious? In my opinion, this Y2K hysteria is getting pretty crazy.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4505)	3/11/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

' Time is running out for Russia by Nadia Damon Russia has yet to start work on making its computer systems millennium compliant, despite having less than 10 months left until the final deadline. This week, Russia's year 2000 competency centre announced an agreement with Lanit Holding, a business partner of US software transformation firm, Relativity Technologies, to use its RescueWare application for millennium work. According to David Green, vice president for Europe of Relativity Technologies, Russian computer systems will not be as straightforward to work on as US and other European systems. "The nature of the problem is different to that in the West," he comments. "In Russia, they have a mass of archaic computer languages and platforms that cannot be made year 2000 ready." Green says the old systems are a legacy of the Soviet government, and cannot be altered in time - because some of the technology platforms may not be upgraded. Instead, Linat is working with Russia's year 2000 competency centre to provide year 2000 remediation and modernise old systems. Relativity claims RescueWare will allow the Russians to transform legacy systems written in languages such as Clipper, which is not widely used in the West, to up-to-date ones such as C++ and Java. It works by replicating the older language and transferring it on to a modern platform. Although Green says Russia doesn't suffer from a shortage of computer skills, he claims it doesn't have the money to fund the work. "Russia has a major problem on its hands. At the moment it doesn't understand the scale of the problem." Last month, US Air Force General, John Gordon, deputy director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), told the US Senate that Russia appears particularly vulnerable, and raised concerns about the safety of Russia's missiles, nuclear plants and gas pipelines - one of which supplies Germany. He said computer glitches following the date change could cause accidents if temperature or humidity monitors malfunction, or early warning missile systems to wrongly interpret foreign missile activity. Gordon added that the Pentagon has been consulting with the Russians about how to avoid the potential dangers. computerweekly.co.uk

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4505)	3/11/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

ACCORDING TO CHEEKY KID (*The voice of reason???) According to Peter de Jager, Jan 01, 1999 was the date problems would start show up. NOTHING of importance happened. FROM C.K. HOUSTON (Doom & Gloomer - LOL) LIST OF Y2K FAILURES WHICH HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED* greenspun.com With documentation of sources - 27 pages - Embedded Systems within an IV drip unit Shut down at 98-99 rollover - Quicken'99 fails with a "divide by zero" message when 1999 transaction recorded in Auto category and "Home and Car Center" is opened. - Security Systems locked out workers - NY auto sticker shock - Australian hospitals - Taxis bugged by Y2K - Stockholm Sweden's Arlanda airport - Consumer - Prescriptions/Insurance - Generator temperature control system at a power plant in the United Kingdom - ALMOST a third of computer-related equipment in South Australian hospitals, including cardiac monitors & drug distribution systems failed Y2K testing. - U.S. Army's Materiel Command, tested its PBX telephone systems for 2000 transition. Ran fine for three days after turn of year, until accumulated date errors shut down the whole network. - Unum Life Insurance Co. deleted hundreds of records from a financial reporting database after one of the company's computers mistook "00" for 1900. - Amway Corp. had a string of chemicals rejected by the network because the expiration dates seemed to be in the year 1900. - Canadian municipality tested water system for Y2K and found a subsystem started dumping in too many chemicals MANY MORE EXAMPLES OF ACTUAL FAILURES (WITH SOURCES) ================================================================ *<NOTHING of importance happened.> CHEEKY KID* Cheryl

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (4505)	3/11/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Yourdon Y2k forum - 62000 messages posted until now yourdon.com then scroll down in the right hand window and click on bulletin-board in the following text fragment: ' To facilitate an ongoing dialog about Y2K issues, we have provided a Web-based bulletin-board forum that generated over 65,000 messages through early March, 1999. Send us any new Y2K information that you've come across, and join in our discussions! ' The BEST forum right now for Y2k (full of D+G types <ggg>) IMO. John