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Topic: Year 2000???
Conf: Brown & Sharpe, Msg: 450
From: Jay Finegan (jfinegan@hotmail.com)
Date: 1/6/1999 01:20 AM

I don't know what you read, but it is misleading. As a general rule, all CMM software packages are Y2K compliant. This is because they simply read the system date and write it out to a report file or a printer - they really don't care. Statistics packages on the other hand are subject to Y2K problems, because if you want a capability study of the most recent 30 observations, what happens if the Y2K is treated as 1900 rather than 2000? Computer hardware and operating systems are also subject to Y2K problems, and Brown & Sharpe cannot certify either of these. Now for specifics.

PC-DMIS, MM4, QUINDOS, MM3, TUTOR/WINDOWS and DataPage are all certified to be Y2K compliant (minimally most recent releases). I don't know about Windows itself(95, 98, or NT), SCO UNIX 3 is not, SCO UNIX 5 is (with certain patches available from SCO.) Older products (AVAIL, TUTOR/DOS, SPECTRUM) are too old to be worth maintaining.