Almost 1,300 Hardware and Software Products Undergo Y2K Compliance Changes in October.

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1999--

Infoliant Records Another Astonishing Negative Change Rate;

155 Products No Longer Deemed Y2K Compliant by Manufacturers

The Y2K compliance status of three hundred ninety-eight hardware and software products changed during the month of October, Infoliant Corporation announced today. The results of the October Compliance Tracker(TM) Delta Report include 232 negative status changes (58%), 155 of which resulted from products being down-graded from Compliant to another "not Y2K ready" status by their manufacturer. In addition, there were significant Y2K Corrective Action Plan updates for 775 products already classified as "Action Required." With the 118 products for which manufacturers withdrew all Y2K disclosure information, a total of 1,291 products were tracked by Infoliant as reporting some sort of Y2K compliance status change in October.

"All of these changes in late 1999 may mean that companies who thought they had solved the Y2K problem early might experience problems in 2000. If this happens, vendors, lawyers, and insurers are sure to ask what steps were taken to stay on top of the latest corrective action plans," remarked Kevin Weaver, Infoliant's executive vice president and co-founder. "With as late as some of these disclosures are being reported, and the bulk of corporate Y2K remediation efforts being completed, the history of how some manufacturers continued to revise Y2K readiness information will surely be scrutinized if failures or losses occur. If nothing else, the changes foreshadow a likely increase in technical support calls from users who didn't get the latest information in time."

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-- 3COM discovered a software bug affecting the CoreBuilder

(LANPlex) 2500 and 6000 model ethernet switches

-- Microsoft issued patches for the 16-bit versions of Internet

Explorer 4.01 and 5.0 and for the 16-bit versions of Outlook

Express 4.01 and 5.0

-- NEC Technologies announced that the BIOS installed in its

PowerMate, Versa, and Ready systems may not match the version

tested by the manufacturer - users are advised to run their own

Y2K tests

-- Informix withdrew Y2K support on a number of older versions of

its database, programming, and data management utility products

-- Microsoft released Service Pack 6 for Windows NT 4.0

-- Novell released Support Packs 7 and 7a for Netware 4.11 and 4.2,

and the Web Access patch for GroupWise 5.2

Infoliant Corporation provides a number of Year 2000 compliance tracking and recording services. The Compliance Tracker(TM) Delta Report tracks statistics regarding the Y2K compliance status of products within Infoliant's Year 2000 Network Advisor(TM) knowledgebase, the leading resource for Y2K readiness information of off-the-shelf information technology products. Infoliant provides its customers with daily updates on the Year 2000 compliance status of more than 45,000 hardware and software products from more than 750 manufacturers. This information is also recorded and stored in Infoliant's Year 2000 Compliance Archive, a new service that provides a valuable timeline of the Y2K compliance status changes and updates for each of the products that Infoliant tracks with its Year 2000 Network Advisor. Infoliant provides these services to dozens of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and hundreds of other organizations worldwide for their Y2K assessment, planning, and remediation projects.

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