I'm interested in developing an effective means of holding suppliers/vendors feet to the fire vis a vis y2k compliance. Apparently these critical elements (suppliers/vendors) are laggging badly thereby threatening the entire systemic solution/s to y2k. If I knew what teletesting means, I could make a judgement as to whether or not to persue.....Thanks for any response or direction....This a resubmittal clarfying the category (not included in previous request. Sorry

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1998

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Our company had to sign an agreement with Chevron saying that our products and technical support was in Y2K compliance. They also sent an auditor to our offices to confirm the status of our company's work in this area.

Murray Hambrick WWW.powerpac.com

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1998

On the "Fat Lady" post below the term was used by me in describing a more realist paradigm for determining the y2k status of a company:

I. Inventory, assessment, and remediation. II. Sub-system testing. Fix what you find. Retest. III Regression testing. (Once A, B, and C work then get A and B working together and then A and B and C working.) Fix what you find. Retest. IV. "Full up" testing without tele. Teletesting. Then both together, Fix what you find and then retest.

By tele testing I was referring to the fact that utilities who think they are compliant will not be if their hardware and software are incompatible with their telecommucation interfaces and links. Ideally one would want to test utility hardware and software with telecommucations equipment and vendors that were suposedly compliant. You would think "how could there be a problem? Why go to such extremes?" Answer.A working and B working does not mean A+B working.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 1998