Hello,

An interview with Koskinen. I looked but couldn't find it posted here, or comments about it.

http://www.fool.com/specials/1999/sp990419koskinen.htm

I'm sure it'll be ripped to shreds. But there it is anyway.

Jonathan

-A computer glitch will not bring about the end of civilization. It takes hordes of panicking people to do that.-

-- Jonathan Latimer (latimer@q-a.net), April 20, 1999

Answers

Tom: "Hey, I remember Henry Kissinger. Didn't Henry Kissinger say he's going to pull his money out of the bank?"

Koskinen: "Well, that's what he's reputed to say. I was not there, but I've seen it on the Web, and a lot of interesting stuff is floating around on the Web. Our advice to people is, you're at greater risk carrying that amount of money around or sticking it in your mattress. I don't know what Henry's planning on doing with his."

I can't believe the Kissinger comment made it onto the air......

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), April 20, 1999.

Well now that it's been officially confirmed that the gov. will make it I quess there is only one thing to do....

PANIC!!!!

Believe nothing untill officially denied.

-- LM (latemarch@usa.net), April 20, 1999.

David: Earlier, John, you gave us that figure of 92% for the federal government -- 92% of mission-critical systems compliant with Y2K. Could you just toss out a number that estimates for the international community at large what percent you think are actually prepared right now?

Koskinen: Well, there's no way to know. You're talking about close to 200 countries, and they run the full gamut of countries that are doing almost as well as we are to countries that are at square one. And there's no way to easily average that, but I would say the vast majority of countries are still very challenged on this problem.

-- Q&A (q@and.ay), April 20, 1999.