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To: John Pitera who wrote (42531)	5/24/1999 10:28:00 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

Nothing to worry about here. -nfg- Asian Y2K dominos may fall usatoday.com .....That's what scares U.S. companies. Computer chipmaker Intel, with plants in China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Latin America, Ireland and Israel, is most worried about Asia. Last fall, a vast majority of its Japanese suppliers were at "very high risk" for Y2K problems, it says. In other Asian countries, "we found major discrepancies in their ability to operate," says Don Rose, head of Intel's Y2K program..... ..... .....Even then, Gartner expects 15% of companies and government agencies in the USA - one of the most prepared countries - to have at least one failure that results in a shutdown, loss of production or considerable revenue loss. About 10% of failures will last three days or more. In Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, the expected rate of such failures goes up to 33%. In China, Indonesia and others, it goes up to 66%.....