STORY:
Y2K Bug Will Hit Early

According to a Reuters, a report from Taskforce 2000, a privately funded organization seeking to raise awareness of the millennium computer bug problem, said about 60 percent of computer errors and data disruption will occur during 1999.

Around 30 percent will happen after the revels greeting the new century have died down, it added.

Gartner Group, the U.S. technology researcher, agrees with the scenario which reckons that millennium bug manifestations will not all occur within minutes of clocks striking midnight at the end of this year.

In a report published last month it said that five percent of Y2K problems happened before January 1, 1999, 25 percent would reveal themselves in 1999, with 55 percent waiting until next year. 15 percent would not come to light until 2001.

Eight to 10 percent of failures would bunch into the two weeks after January 1, 2000.

The report said the "drag factor" could cause problems to spread over days or weeks. This is the lag that occurs between technical errors occurring and disruption becoming noticeable. The report says a failure in one area may take weeks to cause problems elsewhere.

Source: Reuters

DATE: 4/20/99

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