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

To: flatsville who wrote (5591)	4/28/1999 11:52:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEM AND THE GLOBAL TRADING SYSTEM U.S. Department of Commerce - International Trade Administration April 1999 - 23 PAGE REPORT ========================================================= Finally figured out what they mean by "small to medium-sized businesses". ... But many small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), defined as establishments with fewer than 500 employees, remain behind in confronting the problem and some are unaware of its implications. Therefore, a considerable share of Y2K awareness and remediation efforts should be focused on SMEs, which constitute over 98 percent of the total enterprises in most countries (see table 20) and are important to national economies ...In 1992 (the latest year for which figures are available), SMEs in the United States accounted for about 30 percent of total export value." y2k.ita.doc.gov "According to the table, 99.7% of businesses in the US are SME's!! I knew the figure was high, but this is astronomical! And 50% plan on doing nothing about Y2K?!" -- wow (abc@de.f), April 26, 1999 greenspun.com Cheryl