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Myths and Pitfalls of Year 2000 Compliance

Now You're Compliant, Now You're Not!

Constantine Kaniklidis
President of Technology Education Support

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Date:    Tuesday, January 19, 1999

Place:   Andersen Consulting
         1345 Avenue of Americas 
         (6th Avenue between 54th and 55th Streets)
         18th Floor Conference Room 18101
         
Time:    Registration:    5:30 - 6:30 PM
         Speaker:         6:30 - 8:00 PM
         Q & A            8:00 PM

rotating colored ball Myths and Pitfalls of Year 2000 Compliance
     Now You're Compliant, Now You're Not!
It is often thought that achieving Y2K compliance is no more difficult than updating products - application, browser, operating system - to the Y2K-compliant version provided by the software publisher. This is called the versioning fallacy. But in fact compliance may hinge on complex interactions between conflicting office, development, browser, and system software products.

To make matters worse, the product may contain components and/or built-in functions that do not exhibit correct Y2K operation despite being the Y2K version. Therefore we must avoid the assumption that compliance is achieved without checking the component level. And we must be aware that the application of certain Service Packs (SPs), Service Releases (SRs), and hotfixes/patches to achieve compliance can easily be negated by other installation activity. So it's one thing to achieve compliance - by no means easy on its own - and quite another to hold on to it.

This presentation provides vital information to meat the Y2K challenge at the compliance teting stage.It surveys the subtle pitfalls and gotchas that can wreck the best plans for achieving compliance, and offers precise guidance on the detection and resolution of real-world Y2K problems in a variety of systems and products, ranging from Office environments, Client/Server with mainframe server gateways, and Internet/Intranet. Issues are demonstrted live to enhance true appeciation of the problems involved.

Time will be reserved at the end for an open workshop.

Constantine Kaniklidis, President of Technology Education Support is an industry-recognized expert in Client/Server technologies and strategic PC/micro environments, with extensive experience in the mainframe arena as well. Over the past 20 plus years he has conducted, through his company, Technology Education Support, hundreds of technical, management, and executive seminars in Client/Server Architecture, Networking, Internet/Intranet Technologies, Object-Oriented Technology, Windows NT Workstation and Server (4.0 as well as Windows 2000, aka NT 5.0), Windows 95/98, and Data Security, as well as VSAM, new COBOL, and mainframe operating systems. In addition, he provides consulting and training services in Year 2000 Planning, Resolution, Testing and Compliance, which he has delivered to several Fortune 500 financial firms.
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