NEWS - Burma Pre-emps Y2K

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Burma Pre-empts Y2K
2 December, 1999
Rangoon Post

Despite Burma's current rating of being moderately prepared for Y2K and
not having too many date dependent systems to begin with.  Many of
Burma's servers have been preset to the year 2000 for at least 6 months.
Though the users systems running Sun Microsystems operating system 5.6 
and Unix systems are still set to 1999.

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Countries rated on millennium bug preparedness 

            Associated Press

                  International Monitoring, a technology consulting
group based in Britain, has ranked
            nations around the world according to their preparedness for
Y2K.
                  The firm sought third-party verification of each
government's reports on cleansing
            computers and embedded circuits of the millennium bug, and
it based its ratings on the risk
            of disruptions in a given country's power, telecoms, finance
and transportation
            infrastructures.
                  IM predicts 10 percent of Y2K failures will occur on
Jan. 1, with most of the rest occurring
            in the days and weeks that follow.
                  Nick Gogerty, an IM senior analyst, thinks the
majority of bug-related troubles won't be
            directly related to systems failures but rather follow-up
events.
                  "Most large system errors, and we've done research on
this, aren't purely technical in
            nature," he says. "They involve two or three coincidental
errors. So it's technology failing
            followed on by human error."
                  The rankings:

             Best prepared (least at risk):
                  Bermuda, Chile, Canada, United States, Australia, Hong
Kong, Singapore, Denmark,
            Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Britain, Israel.

             Better prepared:
                  Benin, South Africa, Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada,
Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico,
            Trinidad & Tobago, Fiji, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea,
Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand,
            Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway,
Portugal, Spain, Syria.

             Moderately prepared:
                  Italy, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Ukraine,
Yugoslavia, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait,
            Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab
Emirates, Yemen, Colombia,
            Costa Rica, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru,
Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela,
            China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, North
Korea, Pakistan, Philippines,
            Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece,
Botswana, Cape Verde, Chad,
            Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Mauritania, Mauritius,
            Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Tanzania, Argentina, Brazil,
Dominica, Dominican
            Republic.

             Less prepared:
                  Central African Republic, Congo (former Zaire),
Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
            Lesotho, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Swaziland, Gambia,
Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala,
            Cambodia, Laos, Samoa, Vietnam, Albania, Bosnia, Croatia,
Estonia, Latvia, Romania,
            Russia, Turkey, West Bank & Gaza Strip.

             Worst prepared (Most at risk):
                  Liberia, Madagascar, Niger, Somalia, Belize, El
Salvador, Bangladesh, Moldova,
            Tajikistan, Egypt, Oman, Qatar.

             Inadequate information:
                  Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros,
Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea,
            Gabon, Mali, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, Togo,
Uganda, Cuba, Guyana, Nicaragua,
            Azerbaijan, Macau, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Tonga,
Belarus, Cyprus, Iceland,
            Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Algeria, Iraq, Libya.