As New Millennium Dawns, Local Company Helps Keep Its Customers' Power On Worldwide.Business Editors BELLEVUE, Wash--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 29, 1999 WHO: ALSTOM ESCA ESCA Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis ESCA Escaflowne (anime series) ESCA European Speech Communication Association ESCA Escuela Superior de Comercio y Administración (México) Corporation Bellevue, Washington Bellevue is a rapidly growing city in King County, Washington, U.S., across Lake Washington from Seattle. Long known as a suburb or satellite city of Seattle,[1] it is now categorized as an edge city or a boomburb. , USA http://www.alstom.esca.com WHAT: As clocks around the world begin to strike midnight, one local company will be monitoring its software systems through many of its customers in an effort to move those customers seamlessly into the new millennium. ALSTOM ESCA Corporation has been working for over a year in an effort to prevent any potential Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 power failures within the systems that monitor its customer's distribution systems. The company has also worked hard to provide its customers the tools to manage any possible outages in adjacent distribution systems. WHERE: Around the world -- from Auckland to Qatar; from New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. to St. Louis; from Winnipeg to Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. ; from Seattle to Honolulu and points in between -- ALSTOM ESCA will be monitoring electrical networks For electrical power transmission and distribution networks, see . An electrical network is an interconnection of electrical elements such as resistors, inductors, capacitors, transmission lines, voltage sources, current sources, and switches. that use its software systems. WHEN: 12:00 AM, January 1, 2000 WHY: ALSTOM ESCA Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development of systems solutions for the management of electrical energy. The company was founded in 1978 to create software and systems that monitor electrical energy distribution networks so that its customers can deliver reliable and consistent electrical energy. Whether the Y2K bug Y2K bug or Year 2000 bug or millennium bug Potential problem in computers and computer networks at the beginning of the year 2000. Until the 1990s, most computer programs used only the last two digits to designate the year, the first two digits being will strike utilities as has been predicted is anyone's guess. However, ALSTOM ESCA and its global customers have worked together to test for and eliminate any possible outages and "glitches" that can be monitored and controlled with its systems. For more information, or to learn more about the company's role in keeping the lights on around the corner or around the world, contact: Kerry Donk at 425/503-4197 or via e-mail: kerry.donk@alstom.esca.com. NOTE TO THE MEDIA: ALSTOM ESCA spokesperson JD Hammerly, VP Marketing and Sales, will be available to the media to discuss Y2K power issues. Hammerly may be contacted via cellular at 425/503-5132. |
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