Just a head's up - just got this email from the GAO:

January 27, 2000

The General Accounting Office (GAO) today released the following reports and testimony: (reports snipped - not Y2K related)

TESTIMONY:

2. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Leadership and Partnerships Result in Limited Rollover Disruptions, by Joel C. Willemssen, Director of Civil Agencies Information Systems Issues, before subcommittees of the House Committee on Government Reform and the House Committee on Science. GAO/T-AIMD-00-70, Jan. 27.

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I haven't seen or read the testimony... but expect that it will be interesting. Just thought I would pass on the word. I don't believe this testimony is available on the website yet - if so, there would have been a link.

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), January 27, 2000

Answers

Thanks Linda,

I remeber reading some of Joel Williamson's testimony last year.

-- Rick (rick7@postmark.net), January 27, 2000.

The report is now up on the website:

http://www.gao.gov/ne w.items/ai00070t.pdf

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), January 31, 2000.

Thanks Linda! Glad to see you're still here :-)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), January 31, 2000.