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With 500 days left until the year 2000, experts said last week, that it may already be too late for many companies to defuse the
With 500 days left until the year 2000, experts said last week, that it may already be too late for many companies to defuse the
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2009-06-24
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With 500 days left until the year 2000, experts said last week, that it may already be too late for many companies to defuse the millennium computer time bomb.
According to the Gartner Group, A U.S. high-technology consultant agency, nearly a quarter of all worldwide companies have not yet started work on plans to solve the year 2000 programme problems.
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The Gartner Group, which said last year the millennium bomb rehabilitation would cost between U.S. $300 billion and U.S. $600 billion worldwide, also said in the report published this month when only 50 percent of companies that had projects to eliminate the bug planned to test their corrected systems.
Dangerous policy
Experts said this was a dangerous policy, because correcting computer programmes often introduced new flaws. Testing was essential.
The millennium computer bomb is a legacy from shortcuts by software writers, who in the name of economy expressed years with just the final two digits rather than four.
When clocks tick past midnight on December 31, 1999, many unrectified computers and chips will interpret the double zero as 1900.
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Some experts say the problem has been grossly exaggerated by software companies seeking to scare customers into buying the latest, bug-free products.
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"The situation is pretty fatal. Most companies are doing something, but are they doing enough?" He said in an interview.
Titterington also said that for the vast majority of businesses there was no external check on the effectiveness of their making-up work.
Running out of time
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Companies now could only pinpoint vital computer systems for fixing. less crucial systems would just have to run the risk of crashing and be fixed later, Mehta said.
"Some crucial areas apart from computers are not getting enough attention. I don’t think networking companies have their act together—meaning manufacturers of routers, switches and network equipment like Bay (Networks Inc) and Cisco (Systms Inc), these kinds of companies". Mehta said.
He said, "Anybody looking at their systems now is probably too late anyway".
Critical situation
In his report, Gartner Group millennium research director, Lou marcoccio, said that of the 15,000 companies and government agencies surveyed 23 percent had not started millennium bomb projects. Of these, 86 percent were small companies which would not have a chance to remedy their systems unless they began immediately, Marcoccio said.
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"Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Japan, most of South America, most of the Middle East and Central Africa all lag the United States by more than 12 months".
"Most of Western Europe is six months behind the United States, except for Germany which is 12 months behind, and France, which is eight to 10 months behind".
"The U.S. Government has the lead on all other national governments by an even wider margin than the companies in those countries. Most government agencies are significantly behind the United States, "the report said.
A. This will turn many computer programmes to mush. Unchecked, many public utilities, assembly lines, bank teller machines, traffic lights and lifts may shut down.
B. But Graham Titterington, consultant at London consultancy Ovum, does not enjoy this optimistic view.
C. This means most of these organizations will effectively be unable to fix their systems in time.
D. The Gartner report said most western European companies and the United States had made good progress. Germany was a notable laggard.
E. Mitul Mehta, senior European research manager at Frost & Sullivan in London, said time was insufficient out for many companies.
F. Computers are being used in aviation. They are used in the training of airline pilots. Computers also direct the flight of planes from one city to another, control their air speeds and altitudes, and even land them.
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C
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