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Year 2000 Date Problem - Support Centre This section covers matters to make your computer systems achieve Year 2000 compliance to protect your company or organisation into the next century. Background Is Your Hardware and Software Compliant? Check the Manufacturers' Statements Will your PCs work into the next century? All users of PCs will need to look here General Business Issues - Government, Legal, Finance, Community, Utilities, Suppliers, SMEs, Risk Planning Technical Issues - Hardware, Software, Embedded Systems, Year 2000 Programme, Analyis, Conversion, Testing Links to Tool and Service Suppliers Find out about resources to help with analysis, conversion and testing Books to Read Links to general Year 2000 pages Another Date Problem - Global Positioning System (GPS) Time will roll over at midnight 21-22 August 1999 News The Year 2000 Support Centre with extensive links to practical information on dealing with Year 2000 issues for Corporates and Small and medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Background Where to Look for Potential Problems in Your Own Organisation: Departmental Systems and Embedded Processes Why Has The Year 2000 Problem Happened? (Michael Gerner). What caused the so-called Millenium Bug? Year 2000 War Stories (Han van Doom, Y2K Solutions, Netherlands) - some examples of errors beginning to appear And Now For The Bad News -- Year 2000 projects can drain funding and talent from other operations, forcing IS managers to delay-even kill-vital initiatives (Information Week) Year 2000 - Accrued Savings for Y2K - Kappelman & Scott - Com.Links Magazine International Standard Date and Time Notation (Markus Kuhn) When is the Millenium (Greenwich Observatory) How the Average Person Will Be Affected (Computer Horizons) Will The Year 2000 Problem Affect Me? ("Doc" Don Taylor) The Global Economic Impact of the Year 2000 Software Problem (Capers Jones, SPR) Millennium bomb: Cost for UK put at £31bn (Financial Times, UK) Year 2000 Risks: What Are the Consequences of Technology Failure? (ITAA - Statement of President, ITAA to US House of Representatives) Why "Business as Usual" Wont Solve the Y2K Problem © (Bill Pirkle) 2000 Dangers for Engineers (IEE, UK) Year 2000 and EURO: IT challenges of the century Economic Impact of the Year 2000 Problem Ed Yardeni's Center for Cybereconomics Utilities and Year 2000 Millennium bomb: Threat to global telecoms links (Financial Times, UK) Year 2000 - Fifty Excuses for not doing anything (Peter de Jager). Do you know any manager who is complacent, in denial, or has blocked the issue out - in fact, a very poor manager. His excuses are probably here. Q&A with Year 2000 consultant Peter de Jager (TechInvestor) Ed Yourdon and Jennifer Yourdon's TIME BOMB 2000 book and Comments on Yourdon's Chapter 5 (David Mills) General Issues Year 2000 is a Business Issue - not just an IT Issue Guidance for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Government Issues: Central Government - Local Government - Regulatory (HSE, Environment,Banking, etc.) Legal Issues: Company - Directors - Auditors General Business Issues: Risk Management - Contingency Planning - Year 2000, EMU and the Euro Banking, Finance and Investments: Banking and Finance - Investments Utilities and Public Services: Telephones - Power - Water - Transport - Internet Community Issues: General - Health Care - Police Supplier Issues: IT Suppliers - General Suppliers Technical Help Year 2000 Programme: General Guidance - Awareness - Impact Analysis - Correction/Conversion - Testing Systems issues (Hardware and Software): PC s - Networks - UNIX -AS/400 - Data Transfer Manufacturers Compliance Statements (products and versions) Automated Equipment/Embedded Systems - Guidance - Embedded Systems - Manufacturers' Compliance Statements (products and versions) News Feeds Yahoo! News - Year 2000 Year 2000 News Stories (TechWeb) Y2K Late-Breaking News PA NewsCentre - Y2K News releases summary Year 2000 (Computerworld) Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems

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