second hand inside info--sort of

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I know a guy who teaches English as a Second Language (ESL) at WallyWorld in NW Arkansas. He said that large numbers of programmers from Mexico have been visiting from time to time at the Walmart corporate office in Bentonville. They work for the Walmart subsidiary in Mexico known as Cifra. He said they constantly talk about "Y2K". Take that for what it's worth-- if anything.

-- Joe O (ozarkjoe@yahoo.com), July 13, 1999

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My one hope for other countries is that the major corporations are taking care of their own, and somehow that will mitigate the inability of those governments to do their share. Sounds like that is what is happening at Walmart.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), July 13, 1999.

Heck, I'm glad they're doing here for US governments that are failing to remediate thoroughly

- Delta programmers are still working at Hartsfield Airport (Atlanta), and apparently won't know whether they will be through until Oct/Nov - even though the mayor has already declared it fully compliant!

- Northwest sponsored the remediation program at the Detroit airport

etc.

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 13, 1999.


"- Northwest sponsored the remediation program at the Detroit airport"

*shudder*

-- Ron Schwarz (rs@clubvb.com.delete.this), July 14, 1999.


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