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

To: B.K.Myers who wrote (5547)	4/16/1999 2:45:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

This has been my stance on Y2K and antique machines, replace the crap and become MORE productive: Earnings skyrocket at Unisys phillynews.com >>Customers are buying the servers to replace equipment that may fall victim to the Year 2000 programming glitch, and to make greater use of the Internet, Unisys said.<< - - - - - Not sure if I am going to like these stocks next year. What is going to happen to Dell, etc after companies are spending their money on upgrades that should last 3-5 years. PC's anyways. Should be good for the Internet all these companies upgrading hardware so now they have the computing power for the Internet. This Y2K may be the best thing to happen to business. Just think of all the extra traffic on the Net because of upgraded computers.

To: B.K.Myers who wrote (5547)	4/16/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

Good article: How Bad, How Long, How Likely? by Peter de Jager year2000.com >>>The Montreal Ice Storm comes to mind. It was an unexpected crisis, lasting 2 - 3 weeks in the dead of winter, over a large geographic region and affecting a large metropolitan city. This was not a non-event. Some 20 people died, not because they froze to death, but because they brought gas powered generators into their homes and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Pity they didn't know how to use the tools they purchased.<< - - - - - - - - That's exactly what I said a number of times on this thread. People buying all this equipment and don't know how to use it. This Y2K alarmist hype is going to get way out of control.

To: B.K.Myers who wrote (5547)	4/16/1999 6:12:00 PM
From: B.K.Myers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

I just received a company wide e-mail from my client's IT VP. One sentence in the e-mail caught my eye: In addition, the current Wang-based MDS billing system must also be replaced, as it is not (and cannot be easily made) Y2K compliant. This billing system was inherited from a business that we recently purchased. I am beginning to believe that the former owner made a very wise decision to sell the business. Actually, we were made aware of this situation about 2 weeks ago. We have been scrambling to come up the needed resources in order to make this conversion. We will need new hardware and software, and we will have to interface this new system with our current system. We don't have the details (system/application specifications) for the system that we are replacing. We have decided to purchase and install a generic billing system that is widely used in our industry. In order to convert the old files to the new system, we have to learn both the old system and the new system. Then we have to build interfaces so the new generic system can "talk" to our main system. To make matters worse, we have to have all of this done by mid-September, when support from the former owner will be terminated. Looks like the next few months are going to be rough for us. I have seen many people speculate that the recent increase in acquisition and mergers was somehow Y2K related. I wonder how many other companies that have merged or been acquired in the past few years are going to be unpleasantly surprised when they "lift the hood" on the systems that they have purchased. Getting a late start... B.K.