|
 Все новости от 11 января 2000 г.
More organizations report Y2K readiness on new year’s eve
On the eve of the New Year a number of Russian state organizations reported their readiness for the year 2000. According to the Commersant-Daily newspaper, deputy minister of fuel and energy Anatoly Yanovsky announced that the information systems in his industry were 98-99 percent ready for Y2K. Such companies as Gasprom, RAO UES and Transneft spent 1.5 billion roubles (about $60 million) on the solving of the problem, including the replacement of 4,100 out of 5,000 non-Y2K compliant computer systems. The remaining 900 systems are to be “excluded from the technological process”, he was quoted as saying. Some of the ministers and general directors spent the New Year night at their workplaces, looking after the situation. At the same time, according to the online newspaper Lenta.Ru , head of the information and technology department of the Russian State Duma Oleg Kushakov says that the parliament may experience some problems. He reports that over 2,000 PCs and software in use in the Duma was supplied in 1993-1994 whereas the money for their replacement was only allocated on December 21 which left no time for the solving of the problem. Mr. Kushakov says now his task is “not the solving of the Y2K problem, but the removal of negative consequences of possible systems outages.”
|
