Good News! Venezuela forms task force to combat the Year 2000 computer glitch

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Flint will be excited about this.

Venezuela unveils Y2K panel with 10 weeks left

October 22, 1999 Web posted at: 2:29 PM EDT (1829 GMT)

CARACAS (Reuters) -- Venezuela unveiled a presidential task force to combat the Year 2000 computer glitch on Thursday, just 10 weeks before the crucial changeover date.

Gustavo Mendez, head of the 17-member commission, brushed off reporters' suggestions that it would have little time to head off possible computer problems, arguing: "We've already been working on it for a year."

The world's third largest oil exporter, Venezuela has given little public attention to the so-called millennium bug.

Mendez calculated that "critical" systems such as public services were 90 percent ready to deal with the changeover. Unspecified "non-critical systems" were 65 percent ready.

Venezuela's state-run oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela has said that it has already finished updating its computer systems to deal with the millennium bug, and Mendez said computer systems in the power and airline sectors had been updated.

The U.S. State Department said last month that Venezuela was "somewhat" prepared for the Y2K bug but faced a "moderate" risk of power cuts, while a U.S. Senate panel mentioned Venezuela on a short-list of eight countries it felt were least prepared for the changeover.

-- a (a@a.a), October 24, 1999

Answers

Well, I suppose a task force is better than a committee.

dave

-- dave (wootendave@hotmail.com), October 24, 1999.


And I throught that they might wait until the last minute...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), October 26, 1999.

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