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

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (5070)	3/27/1999 12:29:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

EDS Ahead of Schedule on Y2K Testing for Broad Base of Financial Institution Customers eds.com

To: Ken Salaets who wrote (5070)	3/27/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Ken--The data exchange errors is perhaps the most interesting part of this piece. I'd love to know the nature of these, how serious they were, etc...and how they might be related to corrupted data files mentioned as well. Is your group planning a similar survey for its membership? ------------------------------- April 01, 1999, Issue: 1004 Section: Solutions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Real-World Y2K Woes Speculation about how Y2K glitches will affect computing runs rampant these days, but a recent survey by the Information Technology Association of America in Arlington, Va., paints a realistic picture of the problems you can expect the Y2K bug to cause. More than one-third of the survey's 400 respondents reported problems ranging from computer crashes to chip failures. Data-exchange errors affected 34% of the respondents. The other most common problems were accounting errors (27%), corrupted database files (21%) and computer crashes (18%). Not even Y2K-ready commercial software packages are bug-free: 28% of the respondents reported errors with such programs. techweb.com