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Getting Ready For The Year 2000
News It also revealed that eight major financial organisations were not compliant but refused to name them, saying it was not in the best interest of customers and shareholders. The end of year approaches and all eyes in the computer industry are...
[December 31, 1999, 6:00]
NRC: 28 US Nuclear Reactors Still Need Y2K Fix
News The commission said 75 of the nation's 103 operating nuclear power reactors were completely year-2000 compliant and it believed there would not be any problems with the remaining facilities becoming compliant before year-end.
[September 8, 1999, 9:11]
Contingency Plans Step Up Y2K Problem
News Instead, says the analyst, it will be felt by firms throughout the year as business systems run defective code, non-compliant software creeps onto the market and non-compliant data is run on compliant machines.
[August 19, 1999, 9:30]
US Report: IBM Hit With Y2K Suit
News District Court for the Northern District of Illinois -- claims health care providers could experience significant problems that could harm patients as a result of the non-compliant products. Last week, the firms filed suit against Microsoft Corp.on...
[December 23, 1998, 9:06]
UK's Top Firms Misjudge Millennium Work
News A millennium compliant date may be moved to a different field to be used in a calculation, and that calculation may not be done in a Year 2000 [compliant] way," he said. But Parmenter believes there may be "a widespread problem" with systems that...
[November 19, 1998, 16:26]
US Report: MS Outlines Y2K Program
News Still, major products such as Office 95 and Windows 95 remain "Year 2000-compliant with minor issues. All major Microsoft products for the Mac, except Outlook Express 4.0, are fully compliant according to a list on Microsoft's Year 2000 site .
[June 4, 1998, 10:23]
Equanet Improves Decision-Making With Navision
White Papers Equanet had a seven year old bespoke system with limited reporting facilities and it was not certified as year 2000 compliant. Founded in 1989 and located in Surbiton, Surrey, Equanet is now one of the UK's top 20 suppliers of PC and network...
[October 18, 2008, 1:21]
Jet 3.51 Service Pack 3
Downloads Service Pack 2 and Service Pack 3 are both Year 2000-compliant; however, Service Pack 3 also includes additional security updates that are not available in Service Pack 2. Jet35sp3.exe (Microsoft Jet 3.5 Service Pack 3) replaces Jet35sp2.exe...
[August 31, 2007, 13:15]
Source Technologies Uses FormsPartner And MICR Printers To Help A Major Poultry Processor With Y2K Issues
White Papers With the year 2000 approaching quickly, there was an immediate need to convert the current stand-alone, decentralized check printing system to a secure, network check printing system which was Y2K compliant and fit with the company's current...
[February 8, 2005, 23:00]
SAP Case Study: Eskom
White Papers Apart from being old and dating very rapidly, Eskom's financial and commercial systems were not Y2K compliant. To modernise these systems and also to achieve the synergies inherent in integration, Eskom initiated a two year project and rolled-out...
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Upbeat Y2K Message From MOD
News The report, published on the MOD Web site, claimed all mission critical computer systems, including those controlling weapons, would be compliant by September 1999. Defence Secretary George Robertson said: "The Year 2000 is a real issue, and we are...
[December 9, 1998, 11:59]
Action 2000 Talks Tough
News Action 2000 said four-fifths of firms claimed to be millennium compliant but according to the organisation's research only 50 percent had set up a proper bug programme. In her State of the Nation update, Gwynneth Flower, managing director of Action...
[March 5, 1999, 12:29]
Action 2000: UK Ready For Millennium
News The government's bug-busting taskforce has been criticised during the year for not doing enough to combat the computer glitch, and is keen to reassure the public that essential services and businesses are now bug-compliant.
[December 17, 1999, 11:41]
Exclusive: Microsoft Admits 'compliance Problems' With Millennium
News But the site was seen as a PR stunt designed to cover the company's backtracking: officials at Microsoft have used the phrase "year 2000 ready", rather than "year 2000 compliant" for its software and the site contains information on Microsoft's...
[April 20, 1998, 13:16]
Compaq In Millennium Bug Debacle
News If you're going to produce a machine that returns a date of 1900 when it's the year 2000, that's not Y2K-compliant," said Richard Coppel, Prove It chief executive. Although the complainant in the case - Cambridgeshire-based software tools maker...
[July 21, 1998, 15:53]
Exclusive: Government To 'name And Shame' Non-Y2k Compliant Companies
News He delivered a stark message to them: "I hesitate to use the phrase zero tolerance, but there is no room for companies that provide public services to be non-compliant. Robin Guenier, executive director of Taskforce 2000 (another millennium bug...
[October 23, 1998, 15:11]
Programmer Wants Y2K Fix Payback
News Bruce Dickens, who works for Boeing, developed a very commonly used "windowing" technique for making computers Y2K compliant more than 20 years ago. A 49-year-old California computer programmer who patented a widely used Y2K fix is now hoping to...
[November 11, 1999, 17:18]
Early Y2K Bugs Aren't All Fun And Games
News Since then, other date-related problems have surfaced as companies and government agencies have tested their software to make sure it's Y2K compliant -- only to find in some cases that it was not. Tufts Medical plan dropped 18,000 Medicaid patients...
[December 20, 1999, 15:52]
Linux: The Forking Fight-back
News Some large companies, such as Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), have already announced they will only deploy LSB-compliant software, and those kinds of announcements could be the spur that ISVs need.
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
News Burst: Programmer Wants Y2K Fix Payback
News Bruce Dickens, who works for Boeing, developed a very commonly used "windowing" technique for making computers year 2000 compliant more than 20 years ago. Now he is asking US companies that used the technique to pay him for the privilege.
[November 11, 1999, 14:23]
