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It is likely that no matter what you do, some piece of computer equipment will be affected.  The older the computer and the older the operating system and the software, the more likely that something will not work as intended or that you must do upgrading or apply "patches."

Network World, April 12, 1999 issue contained an excellent article titled "Server operating systems need tender Y2K care." Network World has a web site at: www.nwfusion.com

The following table is from the Network World article.

"What you need to do to your server operating systems to make them Y2K-compliant."

Product Y2K-compliant? Action needed Banyan Vines 8.5 Yes None Vines 8.0 and earlier No Upgrade to Vines 8.5 HP-UX 11.0 No Apply free patches HP-UX 9.0 and earlier No Upgrade to HP-UX 11.0 IBM OS/2 LAN/Warp Server 4.0 No Apply free patch IBM AIX 4.3.2 Yes None AIX 4.3.1 and earlier No Apply free patches Microsoft Windows NT 3.5.1 No Apply free patches Windows NT 4.0 No Apply free patches Novell NetWare 3.2, 4.2 or 5.0 Yes None NetWare 2.X, 3.11 or earlier, 4.0 No Upgrade to 3.2, 4.2 or 5.0 NetWare 3.12 or 4.12 No Apply free patches Sun Solaris 2.3-2.6 No Apply free patches SCO UnixWare 7.0 No Apply free patches UnixWare 1.X amd 2.X No Upgrade to UnixWare 7.0 and apply patches

In some cases, older computers, operating systems and software may not serve any further use in your business.  If you have to set the computer to a "false" date, realize that the file creation and modication date and other date related functions will not be correctly maintained or updated.

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