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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5842)	5/26/1999 5:13:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

GAO Report - Status of the Water Industry gao.gov Hi Cheryl, Doesn't sound very good ... low response rates, divided authority. Glad I have my own well. Still like the Y2K newswire site best for news y2knewswire.com They had an interesting LA Times link yesterday on Y2K preparations in Las Vegas latimes.com Got a kick out of the quote "the only difference between a Y2K analyst and a terrorist is that you can negotiate with a terrorist." :-)) John

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5842)	5/26/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

I just created a new thread. Come visit and check out the introductory post. Y2K (Year 2000): Is Wall Street & Banking Vulnerable? Subject 28560 Thought it might be a good idea to have an area to track what's going on with Y2K in the financial world. So many mixed messages out there these days, huh? Cheryl

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5842)	5/27/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

Intel has begun installing extra power generators at factories in Asian countries and Latin American countries with shaky power grids. And its purchasers and technicians have been visiting companies it does not buy from today to see if they could step in if a supplier faltered. "It takes us up to six months to qualify a supplier of something like specialty chemicals" to meet Intel's quality standards, said Rose, the company official leading the effort ... McKesson HBOC, the drug distributor based in San Francisco, said it had to make its decision to order eight large backup diesel generators from Caterpillar Inc. by May 5 to get guaranteed installation by the end of the year. Companies also need to worry about what happens if too many others are thinking about the same backups they expect to use. Take all the companies planning to rent generators. *"There's no way in the world our industry could supply the demand that is in the planning stages,"* said Mark Conrad, United States marketing director for Aggrecko, the Dutch company that owns the world's largest rental fleet of mobile generators ... Good NY Times article: Worriers, Start Your Engines Contingency Plans Hit Their Stride for Year 2000 nytimes.com Hmmm - Wonder who hasn't put their gen order in yet? Cheryl 218 Days till ...