Some of the best observations I have heard are from cybrcync@well.com Any company with, say, one or more mainframes or 50+ PCs hooked up to some servers had better be hustling by now. We're down to 20 months. 600 days plus change. Any way you look at it, the schedule is starting to look tight. Here are some typical steps in a Y2K project, all of which must be done within 20 months. Complete Inventory of Hardware/Software. Replacement of machines that may cause problems. Replacement of potentially troublesome operating-system software. Replacement of potentially troublesome standard office software. Use available software to fix existing databases. Use available software to fix ~80% of custom applications. Hire programmers to fix remaining ~20%. Test. Need to check how prepared customers and vendors will be. I think you are going to need a lot of coffee....