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

To: J.L. Turner who wrote (5620)	4/29/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: B.K.Myers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

My wife and I just scheduled a week's sailing vacation in the Grenadines. My wife made the transportation arrangements with a travel agency in Florida. The travel agent told her that they were having all kinds of problems with their reservation system with flights in 2000. She was told that their systems were crashing in a variety of ways and affecting downstream systems. The travel agent told her that the problems were being caused by Y2K fixes to the reservation system. The problems didn't show up immediately, but started occurring at later dates. The travel agency is suggesting special flight insurance in case there are problems with year 2000 reservations. Although the success of the airline industry to fix their systems for Y2K is widely used as an example that the Y2K problem can be fixed, it looks like there were some bugs in the fix. Maybe more importantly, the bugs don't show up until one or two months after the appearance of Y2K data. If we get past January 2000 without any serious embedded systems problems, this delayed effect will start to cause problems in the spring and summer of 2000. There is simply too much concentration on 1/1/2000. We have to start looking at the long-range effects. B.K.

To: J.L. Turner who wrote (5620)	5/6/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: bearcub	Respond to of 9818

After reading your post re trust, I'll grant you this, JL...I trust YOUR judgment re: the lack of basis for trust in utterances by others that are NOT 3rd party or arm's length verified. The post John Mansfield put up about what the US Dept of Commerce said about USA is probably one of the most factual pieces I've seen in recent times re: what IS WRONG AND WON'T GET FIXED in time, and its "local" impact let alone its "foreign" ramifications. Thanks for your senior moment...makes me feel better.