June 1999 News
- Millenniumisation
- Byte hits the dust
- To PC or NetPC
- A fishy business
- Disalliancement
Its
not only Microsoft products that have millennium compliance issues here
is the latest overview of products and problems.
FAILED
Lotus Organizer
1.1 only goes to 31/12/2001.
NetWare 3.11 is bug ridden with no patches
CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR
Windows 95 cannot
find files by date - patch available
Windows 3.11 file manager date display and
2000 leap year - patches available
Lotus 1-2-3 Win97 change default to @YEAR(<date>,1)
Lotus AmiPro 3.1 doc info screen upgrade
to Pro 97
Lotus Freelance Graphics 97 presentation
properties - no patch
MS Word 6 cannot find files by date - upgrade
to Word 7
Lotus 1-2-3 DOS 3.1 & 4 @YEAR does not
support 21st century dates - upgrade to Win95 version, Add 1900 to the
three digit year, change date columns to display 4-digits
Paradox for DOS 3.5 & 4.5 does not use
pivot date for 2-digit dates. Standard reports use 2-digit dates - ensure
all dates are 4-digits
Paradox 5.4 for Windows assumes 2-digit dates
- ensure all dates are 4-digits
Paradox 7 for Windows does not use pivot
date for 2-digit dates. Standard reports use 2-digit dates - ensure all
dates are 4-digits
Nico-Mak WinZip 6.3 will expire after 2037.
2-digit date display, assumes 0-7 are >2000 and 80-99 are <2000
BYTE
bites the dust
The sale to CMP Media
Inc. seems to signal the end of an era for most of the 90+ staff. Could
this be the beginning of a publication merger cycle?To PC or NetPC
Compaq has abandoned its NetPC product. The Deskpro 4000N will be replaced by a small footprint PC that can come with or without a floppy drive. Someday somebody will invent a diskless PC, maybe!!A fishy business
The big fish are after the little fish in the food retail industry. If the little fish don't get their Y2K act together the big fish are going to leave them out to dry. In January the big fish asked the little fish to join a Y2K initiative - 300 did. One big fish knows it has > 5000 little fish so needs to motivate them. In this age of alliances, new management, partnerships and win-win negotiations the big fish have turned to the well tried and trusted method of threats and bullying - we should expect some empty supermarkets in 2000.
Disalliancement
SCO must be feeling quite disillusioned with the decision by Compaq to select the digital 64-bit UNIX OS. This leaves SCO with the 32-bit marketplace for the next 4-5 years before Merced hits the mass-market. It also leaves SCO wondering about the strength of their Compaq alliance