IT Survey: 30% experienced Y2K Problems

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The media may be saying that Y2K was nothing to lose sleep over, but nearly 30 percent of IT professionals surveyed by TechWeb/CMP Media indicate their organizations suffered some Y2Krelated problems since New Year's Eve. While most glitches were termed "insignificant," 16% caused brief service interruptions and 4% caused significant outages.

Fortunately, most problems were resolved within an hour. But nearly 25% of the sites that did encounter Y2K problems say they need more time to fix everything. And it may take longer for all problems to be discovered. An unexpectedly high 10% of sites that were bitten by the Millennium Bug report trouble with their supply chain or extranetand 49% say it's too early to know if customers, suppliers, and partners also ran into Y2K glitches.

-- tech (tech@tech.net), January 10, 2000


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