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

To: flatsville who wrote (5035)	3/25/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

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To: flatsville who wrote (5035)	3/25/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

re: Japan Y2K problems One limiting factor is that Japan's economy has been in a depression state somewhat like the USA economy was in the early 1930's. With the world's #2 economy in the dumpster, the USA economy is still doing O.K. Japan has been pretty good at limping along the past few years. If computer problems are primarily book keeping related, other companies can buy the production facilities to keep things running. The banks are already functionally bankrupt yet somehow they've avoided total collapse :-) If failures are related to the manufacturing process, then we're in much bigger trouble. >>> Gartner says that computers in Japan are likely to fail at a 50% rate! Is there still anyone who doubts that Japan is behind the 1st tier nations in remediation? Yet the media keeps telling us we have nothing to fear - but fear itself. Can the world economy withstand a 50% failure rate in Japan? No damn Way! Yet those who prepare are going to be blamed for causing the problems. After all, they are the ones who have really caused the problems! Right?