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

To: Christine Traut who wrote (4748)	3/17/1999 11:27:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Christine - the corporate IT guys are going to be very, very unhappy with Microsoft. So will the software companies who develop applications to run on Microsoft NT. The Justice Department antitrust group is gonna look friendly in comparison. An understatement for sure... I wrote this comment in November 1998. y2ktimebomb.com - David

To: Christine Traut who wrote (4748)	3/18/1999 1:36:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

UNITED AIRLINES SETS Y2K COST AT $90 MILLION WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - The world's largest airline, United Air Lines Inc., estimated it will cost about $90 million to eradicate the millennium bug from its computer systems, a regulatory document showed Wednesday. Of that total, $28 million has already been spent, while the remaining $62 million is expected to be spent in 1999 ... At this point, United said it does not have specific contingency plans in place. biz.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________ DELPHI EXPECTS TO SPEND $106 MILLION ON Y2K DETROIT, March 17 (Reuters) ... Delphi spent $7 million in 1997, $40 million in 1998 and sees peak Y2K spending in late 1998 and early 1999, the company said in its annual 10(K) filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Troy, Mich.-based Delphi, the world's largest automotive supplier, is about 80-percent owned by General Motors Corp. (NYSE:GM - news). biz.yahoo.com Has anyone noticed that of the news services, AP and UPI doesn't have much new or challenging to say about Y2K. Most of the thought-provoking and in-depth reporting (with substantiation), comes from Reuters. Cheryl