The Year 2000 Date Problem - Support Centre

How Governments, Organizations, Business and Communities will be Affected

These are links to published articles showing how the Year 2000 Date Problem affects

• Governments
• Hardware and Software Supplies
• Lawyers, Directors and Officers
• Auditors
• Investments
• Financial Services
• People and Communities
• Businesses
• Small Businesses

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects Governments
  • House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
  • Legal Issues Confronting the Federal Government and the State Governments due to the Year 2000 "Millenium Bug" (Jeff Jinnett)
  • Government and the Year 2000 (Y2Ki)
  • Delay on computer "bomb" admitted - Government slow to act (Financial Times, UK)
  • 50 States Of Alert - How US State Governments are handling the Year 2000 Problem (Information Week)
  • What US State Governments are doing about Year 2000 (NASIRE)
  • Anticipating The Year 2000 (CMP TechWire)
  • Federal CIOs Promise Year 2000 Fix (CMP TechWire)
  • National Health Service (NHS) faces £200m millennium bill
  • Congress Gives Regulators Year 2000 Marching Orders
  • North Carolina in trouble with Year 2000 (2k-Times)
  • Y2K - One-man army fights his city's Year 2000 hitch
  • Health Care Year 2000 Information
  • Impact of the Year 2000 Problem on Government
  • Year 2000: California State computer-fix cost is $187 million
  • Will Federal Government Computers Be Ready for the Year 2000? - Joint Hearing of the Science Committee and the Government Reform and Oversight Committee July 10, 1997 - Morella Opening Statement - Year 2000 Interagency Committee - OMB - Federal CIO Council - GSA - GAO
  • Feds Face Y2K Disaster, GAO Warns
  • Getting Federal Computers Ready for 2000 - Progress Report, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, May 15, 1997
  • Conflict Brewing in Washington (Westergaard Year 2000)
  • NITC forms Y2K Task Force (Malaysia)
  • FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) rule details what systems readiness means for Fed buyers
  • NZ Auditor-General's letter to Government organisations, mid 1997 (Year2000 NZ)
  • Year 2000 Fixes--Top Priority (Army Directive)
  • Health Care Year 2000 Information
  • Progress on Year 2000 Conversion (OMB August 15, 1997)
  • GCCS (Global Command and Control System) flunks 2000 test
  • MSNBC - Third World tech at the White House
  • NRC: The Year 2000 Issue
  • NASA tallies Y2K glitch
  • Managing Year 2000 Business and Legal Risks for Hospitals and Health Care Systems (Steve Goldberg)
  • Nuclear Power / Electric Utility Information
  • Year 2000 Compliance: A guide for the police
  • State CIOs sound alarm on Y2K legal issuesUS Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Status Report: SECY-97-213

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects Hardware and Software Supplies:
  • Software Suppliers and The Millennium Time Bomb (Peter Sinnett, Bermans)
  • Software Disasters - The lessons of Ariane
  • Death and Denial: The Failure of the THERAC-25, A Medical Linear Accelerator
  • Year 2000 - Guidance for IT Suppliers (CSSA, UK)
  • Will your Facilities Manager be liable for your systems' failure in 2000? (Weblaw)
  • What to do about testing - The Millennium Bug
  • Y2K Contracts - WhenYour Back is against the Wall, you do not need Leverage to Succeed
  • Vendor Liability and the Y2000 Crisis
  • The Year 2000 Problem: An Ethical View - IS professionals

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects Lawyers, Directors and Officers:
  • The Fiduciary Duty of Care of Directors and Officers (Y2K.COM)
  • Who may be held legally liable for this problem? (Y2K.COM)
  • Insurance Tidbits and Predictions (Y2K.COM)
  • Legal Issues Concerning the Year 2000 "Millennium Bug" (Jeff Jinnett)
  • Questions for the Board Room (Tom Crouch)
  • Y2K Could Cost $1 Trillion in Legal Costs (CMP TechWire)
  • Year 2000 Copyright Maze (Steven L. Hock)
  • Beat the Clock (The Lawyer's Magazine)
  • Who's Responsible for What ? or 'Statement of Requirements - v - Fitness for Purpose' (Dr Stephen Castell)
  • The Millenium Time Bomb - Legal Considerations (Roger Bickerstaff and Mark O'Conor)
  • TMJB Practice Areas: Year 2000 Issues
  • Quantifying Damages in Computer Disputes (Graham J.H.Smith)
  • The Fiduciary Duty of Officers and Directors (Mark J. Stuhlmiller)
  • Y2K Contracts - When your back is against the wall, you do need leverage to succeed
  • Bugs bite, and lawyers litigate
  • Director liability and Year 2000 (Adam Gifford)
  • Legal Guidelines on Millennium Date Change Issues - User Guide (Tarlo Lyons)
  • Legal. Government, Management and Taxation Issues - ComLinks.com
  • Ten Management And Ten Legal Pitfalls Regarding The Year 2000 Computer Problem That You May Not Have Considered, YET! (By: Warren S. Reid and Steven Brower)
  • Y2K - Year 2000 Compliance / Warranties (The Cyberlaw Encyclopedia)
  • Legal Readiness for the Year 2000 challenge, and beyond (UK emphasis)
  • Legal Guidelines on Millennium Date Change Issues - User Guide

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects Auditors
  • Accountants gear up to audit year 2000 compliance (Computing, UK)
  • Auditors fear Year 2000 Chaos (Computing, UK)
  • The Year 2000 and Auditors (Certified Accountant, UK)

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects investments
  • Insurance Company Begins to Dispose of Investments in Non-compliant Companies (Sunday Times, UK)
  • Securities firms form group to plan for year 2000 compliance (Information Week)
  • 'Millennium time bomb' alarms Reuters (The Times, UK)
  • Year 2000 Tax Issues (Joan Paul)
  • Will Year 2000 Fixes Create Giant Sucking Sound? (Register at Barrons) - The possible impact of Year 2000 on Wall Street
  • Millennium bomb may cripple Wall Street
  • NEW ERA RECESSION: Deflation, Irrational Exuberance, & Y2K (Dr. Ed Yardeni, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell)

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects the Financial Services area
  • Time Bomb is still Ticking (The Times, UK)
  • Credit cards offer a visible sign of the Year 2000 Problem (Virginian Pilot)
  • Banks warned of millennium bug
  • Federal Reserve Bank of New York circular - YEAR 2000 ALERT
  • Federal Bank Regulators Outline Year 2000 Project Management Goals (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Committee)
  • FFIEC Interagency Statement - Year 2000 Project Management Awareness
  • Oversight Hearing on Financial Institutions and the Year 2000 Problem Jul 10 1997 (Jeff Jinnett), Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Financial Services and Technology
  • NASDAQ - Information Processing Challenges of the Year 2000
  • World Banks "Jeopardize" Y2K Fix
  • You Can Bank On It - Smith Barney credit $19,000,000 to every clients' account - Why do you think that happened?
  • Senate Banking Committee Hearings, 30th July, 1997 Federal Reserve Board, Comptroller of the Currency, SEC, FDIC, Office of Thrift Supervision, National Credit Union Administration
  • The Year 2000 Problem from an Investment Perspective (Westergaard Year 2000)
  • Letter to Financial Institutions from FFIEC, May 9 1997
  • THE YEAR 2000 - A Challenge for Financial Institutions and Bank Supervisors
  • Insurance companies likely to shun millennium bug claims (Computerworld)
  • FRB: SR 97-16 (SPE)
  • FRBSF: CDC Index Federal Reserve Bank Financial Institution Services Century Date Change
  • Year 2000 Introduction (Securities Industry Association (SIA))
  • YEAR 2000 Watch - bankinfo.com

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects people and communities
  • What impact will the Year 2000 Date Problem in computers have on the lives of people and local communities?
  • Will you be seeing the Movie? - Trigger Effect!
  • Millennium infrastructure: Urban worriers (Computer Weekly, UK)
  • Life in the Big Apple after the millennium (Computer Weekly, UK)
  • Employees Face Easter Without Pay (The Times, London) - What happened when banking computers broke down
  • Computer chaos in 2000 may stop cars and fridges (The Sunday Times, UK)
  • Health Care Year 2000 Information
  • Hospitals Show Low Resistance to Year 2000 Threat
  • Computer crisis 2000 - Governments must solve their share of the problem (Electric Times Union)
  • Community Impact of the Year 2000 Problem (Steve Davies)
  • Health Care and the Year 2000 (Rx2000 Solutions Institute)
  • Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums
  • The Cassandra Project - To raise public awareness of the potential health, safety and basic service continuity hazards of the Year 2000 date problem
  • Year 2000 Paul Revere Community Alert on Y2k Threat to Core Infrastructures

• How Year 2000 Date Problem affects businesses
  • BT trading partners get 2000 ultimatum (Computer Weekly, UK)
  • Risk Management and the Year 2000 (Ann Deering)
  • Year 2000: Partners in compliance (Computer Weekly, UK)
  • Users in dark over Year 2000 barcode dangers
  • Introducing the EURO (and Year2000 problem) (Han van Doom, Y2K Solutions, Netherlands)
  • Beware Millennium Claims, Experts Warn
  • Year 2000: The domino effect - What about Your Suppliers and Customers (Datamation)
  • Walking on thin ice - Why should a user have to upgrade hardware and software unnecessarily, P. de Jager (Datamation)
  • EMU & Euro IT Issues
  • Minimizing the Costs of a Year 2000 Remedy
  • Gaining Financial Control of Your Year 2000 Projects (Larry Shoup)
  • Third-Party Time Bombs -- Most industries focus on their internal conversion concerns
  • Call Center Crisis? -- Outdated PBXs called vulnerable to date-field problems
  • The problem with networks
  • The Millennium Problem - One Plant's £500,000 ($800,000) Problem
  • Economic Impact of the Year 2000 problem
  • Risk Management and the Year 2000
  • Call Center Crisis? -- Outdated PBXs called vulnerable to date-field problems
  • How Your Insurance Company is Looking at the Situation (Financial Times)
  • Strategies of a Year 2000 Project Manager (Mike Kilbane)
  • Year 2000 Articles - project guide for the business PC and LAN user community.
  • Users Must Be Leaders -- Business executives must move from the role of passive bystander to that of joint owner of the year 2000 solution
  • Ed Yourdon's view - The Personal Consequences of Year 2000
  • Year 2000 Scams & Scoundrels, 7/14/97 (Computerworld)
  • Finance software may get snagged by new European currency demands
  • Market's computer already hates year 2000; owners sue
  • Disclosure by Public Companies Regarding the Year 2000 Issue (SEC Staff Legal Bulletin 5)
  • Year 2000 is a problem for management as a whole, NOT just the IT department
  • Risk Management and the Year 2000
  • IT in the Spotlight -- CIOs must pinch pennies but also keep pace with rapid change and new demands
  • Project Management is the key to Year 2000
  • Executives Warn Of Year 2000 Ripple Effect
  • The Internet and the Millennium Problem (2000) Charter
  • Net Is Not Immune to Year 2000 Concerns, Study Says /WW May 19, 1997

• Small Businesses and the Year 2000 Date Problem
  • Year 2000 Date Problem: Smaller businesses get a helping hand (Computer Weekly, UK)

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