Subject: Y2K Update PC 4-26-99

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:20:00 -0700 (MST)

From: Najam Saeed

Computer Services has been working vigorously to collect the inventory of primarily Windows-based computers (Rycom, Compaq and other IBM compatible) which are or are not Y2K compliant. Breakdown of this information is listed below:

Total number of Windows based computers at PC: 543

Number of Windows based Computers Y2K compliant: 296

Number of Windows based Computers NOT Y2K compliant: 247

We believe that a majority of the non-Y2K compliant computers are fixable. We are working with software vendors to get the best software package which can check and fix the Y2K problems cost effectively. We will decide and purchase the software of choice by the middle of May 1999. Then the process of correcting desktop systems will begin.

On the software front, a Y2K form has been developed to be sent to the software developers to verify if their software is Y2K compliant. We needed such a form since many departments at the college use department and subject specific software packages. Bonnie Petterson, the chair of the HIT department agreed to use the form as a pilot. She completed one form per software developer of the software which her department uses exclusively in the HIT Lab and mailed it. She received replies back from the software manufacturers in which they informed her if their software product was Y2K compliant. Bonnie shared the results of her queries with me and she also gave me a few good suggestions to tighten the form a little bit. Thanks, Bonnie! I intend to update the form and then share with the department chairs so that they can get the Y2K compliance verification from the software developers.

Our expectation is that the Y2K compliance project at PC will kick into high gear within a month or so. Where are we with respect to the rest of the district? I have chatted with my counterparts at various colleges and have talked with the district folks who are working on the Y2K project. We are right around where the district and other community colleges are. We will actually take a lead as soon as we acquire the software to fix the computers for Y2K and start sending the Y2K form for software compliance verification to the software developers.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you very much for your patience and cooperation.