From: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: 61% of IT Professionals Plan to Pull Money from Banks Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:05:20 -0600 To: believer@telepath.com Source: http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/3072 Category: Programmers'_Views Date: 1998-11-13 17:53:32 Subject: 61% of IT Professionals Plan to Pull Money from Banks Link: http://year2000.dci.com/articles/1998/11/11poll.htm Comment: In an on-line poll of over 6,000 IT professionals (high), 61% plan to take cash out of their banks. This is from DCI (Nov. 11). * * * * * * * * . . . Almost eighty percent are taking steps to minimize the impact of the Millennium Bug : 62.4 percent plan to avoid traveling by plane, 61.5 percent will withdraw money from the bank, and 58.6 percent will purchase extra supplies in case of a shortage. Link: http://year2000.dci.com/articles/1998/11/11poll.htm November 11, 1998 Pointing the Y2K Finger An online Year 2000 poll conducted recently by ZD Network News and The Harris Poll Online reveals a mixture of confidence and prudent preparation among a group of Y2K-savvy professionals. Of the 6,320 people who filled out the survey, 56.8 percent identified themselves as full-or part-time I.T. professionals. Not surprisingly, 84 percent claimed to have a "good" or "complete" understanding of the Year 2000 problem. More than half are clear on who is to blame. Sixty-one percent of respondents believe those who build, sell and use computers, along with business leaders, are responsible for the Year 2000 problem. And don't look to place the blame on Uncle Sam. Only 23.6 percent of those surveyed say they will blame the government in the event of Y2K disruptions. Happily, the news isn't all bad. A large percentage of respondents (75.2 percent) said their companies have taken steps toward Y2K compliance. Sixty-two percent believe their company will be able to make the necessary changes and create contingency plans in time to meet the Jan. 1st deadline. A healthy 84.8 percent of respondents whose companies are actively working on Y2K believe compliance goals will be reached. However, only 24.1 percent reported that the process was already complete. Over half of those surveyed feel they are more concerned about Y2K than the majority of people. But panic has yet to set in. When asked to predict the impact of Y2K only 21.3 percent said they thought it would be "very serious." Almost two-thirds believe the results of Y2K will fall somewhere in the middle ground between "negligible effects" and "doomsday." Respondents are taking precautions nonetheless. Roughly three-fourths of survey participants have checked their PCs for Y2K compliance. Almost eighty percent are taking steps to minimize the impact of the Millennium Bug : 62.4 percent plan to avoid traveling by plane, 61.5 percent will withdraw money from the bank, and 58.6 percent will purchase extra supplies in case of a shortage. © Copyright 1998 by DCI (978) 470-3880 ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************