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Year 2000 Wire/MEDIA ALERT: GartnerGroup's Symposium/ITxpo `99; GartnerGroup Year 2000 Update Teleconference

07:03 a.m. Aug 17, 1999 Eastern

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

GartnerGroup's Symposium/ITxpo `99:

GartnerGroup Year 2000 World Status, The Final Countdown

Time: Tuesday, August 17, 1 pm Eastern, 10 am Pacific WHAT: Gartner Group, Inc. (NYSE: IT) with fewer than 150 days to go

before the century date change, what are the remaining risks associated with Y2K? What countries, industries and activities will most be affected by Y2K related problems? What will cause future failures and when are they anticipated? Last, what are the recommended actions that companies and managers should consider going forward in the weeks ahead?

The teleconference will serve as a sneak peak of new research and technology tracks to be debuted at the upcoming GartnerGroup Symposium/ITxpo 99 conference to be held October 11-15 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. A question-and-answer session will follow.

WHO: Lou Marcoccio, Research Director, Gartner Group, Inc. WHEN: Tuesday, August 17, 1 pm Eastern, 10 am Pacific

TO REGISTER FOR TELECONFERENCE: Contact Cindy Olson at TSI Communications for GartnerGroup at 212-320-2230, or e-mail your name, publication, and full contact information to colson@tsicomm.com. We will provide call-in numbers, passwords and background materials Tuesday morning.

VIDEO NEWS RELEASE AVAILABLE AT 2:00 PM EST

SATELLITE UPLINK COORDINATES FOR TELEVISION STATIONS: A Y2K VNR and B- roll package will be available at the following satellite coordinates: Tuesday Aug. 17th by satellite 2-2:15 E.T. (14:00- 14:15), Telstar 6, Transponder 7, C Band, Audio 6.2/6. The VNR/B-roll includes sound bites from GartnerGroup's Lou Marcoccio and U.S. Senator Chris Dodd plus consumer-oriented video clips.

Copyright 1999, Business Wire

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-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), August 17, 1999.

Ok,so what happened?I didnt see it on c span here in Ca.I must have had wrong time.

-- y2kme1 (y2kme1@hotmail.com), August 17, 1999.