Joe writes:
> 1.  The Euro Conversion [...]

And it's been mentioned before that in the US the Social Security Number
is likely to expand in size in a few years along with telephone numbers
and possibly other fundamental data items.

> 2.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE indicator)... it's been hovering
> in the 8000 to 9000 area, sometimes breaking 9000.  Guess what?  The systems
> only have FOUR DIGITS for the DJIA!

I recall hearing this problem is mostly mythical (it was discussed quite
a bit when the DOW shot through 8000 the first time), and that they don't
expect any serious problems from the "D10K" problem.  I could be wrong
though.

One of the hot questions is what will happen to IS budgets after the year
2000.  Will there be more Y2K work to do?  Will all the Y2K programmers
get laid off?  Will budgets go down because the work is over?  Will budgets
stay the same or even go up due to the backlog of projects that got
postponed for the last three years because of Y2K?  Will everyone simply
move on to the next "Y2K" kind of problem (euro, SSN, etc.)?

G.