Millennium Meltdown

Web Sites

• http://www.score.org , the home page of the Service Corps of Retired Executives, provides articles, resources and links on Y2K for small businesses.
  
  
• http://www.microsoft.com/year2000 rates the Y2K compliance of Microsoft products and offers an extensive list of tools and resources.
  
  
• http://www.IBM.com/IBM/Year2000 , IBM's Y2K home page, offers information on its major platforms as well as a testing matrix to help you conduct Y2K tests on your systems.
  
  
• http://www.year2000.com is a clearinghouse of Y2K information, including a list of vendors, articles on the subject and e-mail updates.
  
  Software
  
  YMARK2000 from the National Software Testing Laboratory tests your PC for Y2K compliance. Download the software from http://www.nstl.com/html/y2klogo.html
  
  Book
  
  Time Bomb 2000 (Prentice Hall Computer Books), by father-and-daughter team Ed and Jennifer Yourdon, explains the Y2K crisis in clear, concise terms, presenting various scenarios to illustrate how Y2K could impact industry, infrastructure and society.
  
  Consultant
  
  MillenniumPlus Consulting (http://www.millenniumplus.com , 770-521-9959) works with small businesses to determine susceptibility to the Y2K bug and provides services to ensure compliance.
  
  

This article was originally published in the January 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Millennium Meltdown.