I found this on csy2k...not sure if it has been posted yet. (I hope the author doesn't mind the cross-post!) ====================================================================

Is it your contention that the problem in Poland Is definitely NOT JAE???

I talked to Prokom people in Poland today. They told me that their position is that none of their software problems are Y2K related.

Problem #1 is occurring because they only had two months to upgrade their latest version, as required by new reforms, and the problems were caused by their hurried schedule. Will correct them soon. Problem #2 is much more serious as their software has difficulty calculating future benefits starting on and after September 1999. They anticipate that it will take around 6 months to fix this glitch

Some quotes from todays, 1-25-99 "Zycie Warszawy": "This week will be crucial to our ability to pay people. I think it will be corrected, it has to be corrected we have NO Other options. One programmer spend 2 days evaluating the problem in Polish Social Security office and had no idea what is going on" - SS employee One VP of Accounting (of a private firm) had said that she believes that the problem lies in the inability of her firm's software to communicate with SS' computer. Her employees paychecks are calculated manually. Polish Social Security workers had said that only faith in miracles, which occasionally happen, will help correct this computer glitch.

-- Delete (del@dos.com), January 26, 1999

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They anticipate that it will take around 6 months to fix this glitch. "This week will be crucial to our ability to pay people.

[yep. Its called "deep do-do time"]

I think it will be corrected, it has to be corrected we have NO Other options.

[does this sound familiar?]

One programmer spend 2 days evaluating the problem in Polish Social Security office and had no idea what is going on"

[This scene will be repeated ad infinitum very shortly]

- SS employee One VP of Accounting (of a private firm) had said that she believes that the problem lies in the inability of her firm's software to communicate with SS' computer.

[US SS still has this same problem to be resolved]

Her employees paychecks are calculated manually. Polish Social Security workers had said that only faith in miracles, which occasionally happen, will help correct this computer glitch.

[I know I've been praying...]

-- a (a@a.a), January 26, 1999.