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

To: David Eddy who wrote (5525)	4/14/1999 11:14:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

David - Thank you for that important correction. The following is from the ITAA's FAQ on the certification program. <Could An Error Still Appear Even If A Company's Product Or Service Has Received ITAA*2000 Certification? Yes. Although a certified company has demonstrated an advanced degree of professional ability in dealing with the Year 2000 situation, certification does not represent a warranty or guarantee on specific products or services. For example, systems have to interface with other software and other systems. No one product can assure successful total system integration.> While the program does not, as I assumed, include actual testing of code, it still is the best indicator that I have found of companies who are willing to be open about their Y2K work. IBM had virtually all of their operating systems certified in the middle of last year. I somehow doubt that Microsoft has any intention of submitting even their methods and processes to any sort of public scrutiny. Unfortunately, their users are not holding them accountable.....yet.

To: David Eddy who wrote (5525)	4/15/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: Ken Salaets	Respond to of 9818

[This probably isn't completely on topic vis-a-vis Christine's initial comments, but...] >> The ITAA certification is for a rigorous process or methodology of doing Y2K work...It is not the same thing as saying product X is Y2Kok. That indeed is correct, David, but I suspect that people will assume that it was more than that, e.g., a Y2K certification, due to misinterpretation or misrepresentation by a vendor, and lawsuits will result. I believe ITAA has isolated part of its organization into a separate entity in anticipation of legal actions. Ken