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INFO: Is OS/2 Warp Ready for the Year 2000? (Advisory)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy Sipples)
Sat Jun 14 01:47:50 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 14 Jun 1997 01:05:01 -0400
From: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-To: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
Reply-to: tsipple@us.ibm.com (Timothy Sipples)
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Product Advisory: OS/2 and the Year 2000
With the coming millennium, many older computer products (including PC
software) may be unable to cope with dates beyond December 31, 1999. Much of
the world's software was written to handle only two-digit years (00 through
99).
Now is the time to examine whether you're ready for the year 2000. Problems
can occur even before January 1, 2000, because computers used to handle
everything from insurance policy renewals to sales forecasting to loan payment
calculations may have problems well before the actual date.
PLEASE NOTE: IBM OS/2 Version 2.11 and earlier are NOT Year 2000 Ready. If
you are running Version 2.11 or earlier releases of OS/2, please consult your
IBM software specialist or reseller to obtain an upgrade to the latest version
of OS/2 Warp.
OS/2 Warp (Version 3 and Version 4 releases) are Year 2000 Ready. That is to
say that the base API (Application Programming Interface) calls in these
releases support dates beyond December 31, 1999. Applications running on
these releases may or may not be Year 2000 Ready, so please be sure to include
such applications (particularly mission-critical applications) in your Year
2000 review.
For more information on preparing for the millennium, please see IBM's Year
2000 web site at http://www.ibm.com/year2000. Through this web site you can
access a comprehensive list of IBM products which are Year 2000 Ready.
Timothy F. Sipples IBM Personal Software (Chicago)
Internet: tsipple@us.ibm.com WWW: http://www.secant.com/sipples
Sent with Lotus Notes for OS/2 Warp
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