Contingency plans to deal with the millennium bug will create more problems than the bug itself, according to research from the Gartner Group. Gartner’s latest Year 2000 World Status report says companies are stockpiling, planning to shut factories down over the millennium period and changing suppliers to combat the bug. “The knock-on effect will be quite draining on the economy,” says Gartner Group analyst Andy Kite, who believes bugs in computer systems are inevitable but have “insignificant” commercial impact compared with the preparations firms are making to deal with the issue. The research also found that businesses are postponing e-commerce ventures as they rush to deal with the millennium bug and many are falling behind on bug-compliance programmes. Originally hoping to complete bug fixes by mid-1999, many firms are finding compliance efforts lasting through to year-end. Internationally, says the report, countries are realising the need to face up to the bug and pressure from organisations like the World Bank has forced poorer countries to make their bug efforts public. The UK, US, France, Australia, China and Japan are among the countries listed as making significant progress with year 2000 compliance and, contrary to popular belief, there are no countries that… Read full this story
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