Just got to work and coworker who knows my research on Y2K (got her to GI!) loaned me copy just arrived of this magazine. Date: 10/18/99, Volume 16, #42.

Cover story by John Fontana says "Less than 80 days before year 2000, a striking number of software and hardware products once deemed Y2K-compliant are showing new vulnerabilities to the millennium bug. The compliance reversals are forcing IT executives to repeat remediation work that had been considered complete, and the reversals underscore the insidious nature of the Y2K bug. They have come in products from well-known companies such as 3Com, Compaq, Computer Associates, IBM, Novell, Microsoft and RSA Data Security. The flip-flops have been so frequent for Microsoft's NT 4.0, for example, that some users are putting off NT remediation for as long as they can rather than risk doing the work multiple times." It goes on from there. Quotes Infoliant study.

-- Elaine Seavey (Gods1sheep@aol.com), October 20, 1999

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You know, I'm starting to feel sorry for John Koskinen. He probably gets all these rosy compliance reports from corporations, assumes they are true, and repeats the good news.

This is just another good example of why you can't believe compliance reports. Corporations aren't going to report anything that will expose their competitive disadvantage. I'm really starting to feel sorry for all these people that have placed their faith in the mighty corporation.

-- Amy Leone (leoneamy@aol.com), October 20, 1999.

I went to a meeting with managment last night. I asked if our suppliers were y2k ready. I was told that they say they are but we have been telling people we are ready for 6 months and just fixed are comps this weekend. Not all are equipment is y2k ready but it will be by the 1st of the year.RIGHT!!!!!!!!

-- Curly~Q (Curly@Q.COM), October 20, 1999.

Somehow we can't imagine ever feeling sorry for Koffinsky ... he's had a big smothering hand bringing on this disaster himself.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 20, 1999.