SURVEYED COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS SEE BIG PROBLEMS AHEAD

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IT Survey Foresees Global Y2k Crisis

Information technology (IT) professionals are very concerned about the Year 2000 bug, according to a survey conducted by the INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (ITAA) in December 1998. The poll was directed at the 11,000 direct and affiliate members "from America's largest corporations to the entrepreneurs building the blockbuster IT companies of the future."

Eight-seven percent of survey respondents said the Year 2000 problem is a crisis for the nation and the world;

52 percent think the millennium bug will hurt their companies; and only 21 percent disagree with this notion.

Over one-third said the bug had already started to bite, triggering failures under actual operating conditions.

Other notable components of the survey include:

Perhaps the most striking result of the survey is that only 19 percent believe their local communities are taking adequate steps to prepare for Y2K contingencies.

From: Dr. Ed Yardeni's Y2K Reporter, April 12th, 1999; and

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-- Bill (billdale@lakesnet.net), April 18, 1999


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