The Y2K PROBLEM

Y2K Problem Introduction: The start of the new millennium poses many challenges for businesses, governments and other organizations that rely on information technology systems. Perhaps none is more serious than the need to ensure that computer systems around the world can cope with the year 2000 date change. With fewer than nine months to go before the 20th century ends, a whole industry is growing up around what is now variously described as the "Millennium …

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