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To: Mark L. who wrote (29541)	3/13/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: NAG1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

I am new to TAVA and have taken a small position in the company. I would like to thank all the posters here providing information and doing so in a manner which is civil and informative for the lurkers (like me) out there. It would seem to me that there will be plenty of y2k work out there for several years to come. I think alot of small issues and utility software and hardware that people are not thinking about will be an issue and although may not cause systems to crash, will be buggy enough to have taken care of. There are probably programs being sold today as being y2k compliant that have bugs in them that will need to be fixed to make things work smoothly(didn't microsoft just find some y2k noncompliant code in some of their software?). I would think with present stock price, that the market is already factoring in the idea of what they think post y2k business will be like. If you think they are wrong and low and think that tava will be able to adapt to the changing marketplace, you will be buying and the present stock price just gives you an extended buying opportunity. If you think that revenues and earnings will be disappointing and that the switch won't occur, you will be selling short or daytrading over the trading range of the stock. I am not sure which it will be so I have taken just a small position at present and looking as to how things will unfold. Thanks for all the previous input, both positive and negative. Neal

To: Mark L. who wrote (29541)	3/13/1999 1:29:00 PM
From: Karl Drobnic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Mission Critical vs. Non-critical: A few weeks ago I posted a note on what the govt. of British Columbia said about its Y2K preparations. They first identified 1200 computer-reliant systems. They deemed 67 of these as "mission-critical", and promised to get these 67 over the finish line. There will be another 1,133 systems to check and repair. There was no indication of what checks and repairs will have been made to these 1,133 systems by 1/1/00, but it is reasonable to assume that they have not gotten the attention of the 67. And since they are not mission critical, perhaps some will not be fixed. But it is certainly a huge "future log" of work - and it is at just one provincial government. This "future log" can be multiplied many times over when one considers all the other agencies, businesses, and organizations that have "mission non-critical" work to do after 1/1/00. It appears to be a larger job than fixing "mission critical" systems.