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

To: Christine Traut who wrote (5799)	5/24/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 9818

Christine--As you may recall from my pm to you last week Thurs. I was starting to get "nervous." I didn't much care for the tone of what I was reading and hearing. I had been watching the some of the index options on the CBOE, the indices and the bond market and was having difficulty interpreting what I was seeing...Now I think I know what I was seeing...Yikes! Some LEAPS puts are up today on the DJX...Gee what a surprise. I imagine by the end of the day some of the DTX puts will be up as well. I read something this morning on Yahoo regarding some brokerage establishing a bearish stance on airlines in gerneral rather than specific carriers...Sounds a little bit like the reasoning behind the money center downgrade today, eh? Stay tuned...More of this kind of thing to come.

To: Christine Traut who wrote (5799)	6/4/1999 10:38:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Trend Continues - The Infoliant Compliance Tracker(TM) Delta Report Shows One-Third of All Y2K Compliance Status Changes in May are 'Negative' PITTSBURGH, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest Delta Report released by Infoliant Corporation, which tracks statistics regarding the Y2K compliance status of over 36,000 hardware and software products, announces that 367 products had their status changed during May. 38% of these products underwent a "negative" change with either the disclosure of a previously unknown Y2K issue, or the manufacturer's decision to cease Y2K support for that product. This continues the trend of the past three months where approximately one-third of all status changes have been "negative" in nature. Another alarming announcement is that the percentage of products that were moved into the "Vendor Will Not Test" category has risen to 15% in May, up from 8% in April. Also, 1,850 products tracked by the Year 2000 Network Advisor are still in the "Pending Evaluation" category, meaning that the manufacturer has not yet tested these products for Y2K compliance ... Also reported by Infoliant, but not included in the May Delta Report, are over 600 updates that are not actual status changes, but rather are revisions to previously released corrective action plans. For example, already requiring corrective action, *Microsoft revealed the need for additional* patches designed to make Windows 95 fully Y2K compliant...** infoseek.go.com Cheryl