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THE MILLENNIUM BUG
WHO COULD IT AFFECT?
- Every Business Worldwide - NO Exceptions
- Utilities Worldwide - NO Exceptions
- Educational Establishments Worldwide - NO Exceptions
- Transportation Worldwide - NO Exceptions
- Financial Establishments Worldwide - NO Exceptions
HOW SERIOUS IS IT?
"It's estimated that to solve the Year 2000 problem, globally will cost . . .
... $1.5 THOUSAND BILLION"
Knocking at Doomsday's Door - ITV, UK TV, 15th May 1998
INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM - WITH GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
- Action 2000 - Government task force £17 million budget
- Business Link - Making the Bug a priority 20,000 Bug Busters
BUT!
- Awareness ONLY - It is the responsibility of those affected
LEGAL SITUATION
Company Directors & Officers may be personally liable
The fiduciary Duty of Care:
Each director and officer owes their company a fiduciary duty of care which requires that he or she excercise reasonable diligence in the performance of his or her obligations on behalf of the company.
Central to the duty of care is the duty of due enquiry. In other words, there is no protection from liability in being ignorant of the existence of a problem.
The Year 2000 problem leaves Directors and Officers extremely vulnerable!
THE YEAR 2000 PROBLEMS
DATE HANDLING
- "2000" or "1900" ?
- Upto 85% of PCs may fail in the year 2000
- Approx 28.4 million PCs in the UK alone
- Approx 480 million PCs Worlwide
WHAT WILL HAPPEN?
- Complete Compliance - No Problem
- Complete System Failure - Loss of all records and data
- Partial System Failure - Inaccurate data
SOME CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE
- Business - Supply Chain Failure
- Services - Utilities - Health & Emergency
- Transportation - Planes, Trains & Busses
- Financial - Stock Market Crash - 70% chance
- Legal Responsibility - Directors and Officers
WHO WILL REQUIRE PROOF OF COMPLIANCE?
- Your Legal Representatives
- Banks
- Insurance Companies
- Customers
- Suppliers
- Customs & Excise
- Inland Revenue
- The Health & Safety Executive
THE YEAR 2000 SOLUTIONS
SOLUTION CHOICES
- New PCs - Expensive & not always a guarantee of compliance
- New Motherboards - Can be expensive & not always compliant
- Other Hardware Fixes - No report or software analysis
- Other Software Diagnostic - Accuracy?
- Timebomb Pro - 100% Accurate, independently verified
CONTINUA SOLUTIONS
MAIN BENEFITS OF TIMEBOMB
- 100% Accurate - Independently Verified
- Diagnoses - Hardware
- Provides - Hardware Fix
- Prints - Hardware claim of compliance report
- Analyses Software - Identifies date sensitive files
- Prints - Software results report
- SAVES - Lots of Time & Money - Customer Installable
TIMEBOMB RANGE
- TimeBomb Disposal Kit - Single User (hardware)
- TimeBomb Pro - Single User (hardware & software)
- TimeBomb Compliance Manager - 10, 50, 100 user versions
- TimeBomb Corporate Compliance Manager - 250 to 10,000 users
Developed in Association with Business Link, Central Lancashire.
PROOF OF COMPLIANCE
DISC PD2000 - 1 A Definition of year 2000 Conformity Requirements
"Year 200 conformity shall mean that neither performance nor functionality is affected by dates prior to, during and after the year 2000. In particular:
RULE 1. No value for current date will cause any interruotion in operation.
RULE 2. Date based functionality must behave consistently for dates prior to, during, and after the year 2000.
RULE 3. In all interfaces and data storage, the century in any date must be specified either explicitly or by unambiguous alrorithms or inferencing rules.
RULE 4. Year 2000 must be recognised as a leap year"
By the strict terms of this definition . . . .
. . . TimeBomb delivers complete
"Year 2000 Conformity" And the report to prove it!
CREDIBILITY
VNU European Laboratories
- Part of VNU publications - PC Weekly etc..
- Internationally recognised and approved
- Have carried out test work on behalf of Action 2000
VNU Test Results
TimeBomb produced 100% Accuracy in diagnosing which of the PC's had a problem and which were able to handle rollover to the next century - Where an incompatibility was detected, the supplied fix was also 100% successful at overcoming the date handling failure
SOLACE CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Client List Includes
- The Pentagon
- Governmental Departments
- High Street Banks
- BP
- GEC Marconi
EXTRACT FROM SOLACE REPORT
An extremely thorough, informative and well presented package which reports accurately at all required levels. The tests produce the most honest results witnessed to date in any Millennium testing package, allowing the user complete confidence in defining the year 2000 compliance status of each PC.
© 1998 Continua Systems Ltd.
