Black Box Announces They Will be Ready for the Year 2000.PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1999--Black Box Corporation (Nasdaq:BBOX) announced today that it expects their business systems, 15,000 "Black Box" products, and significant support vendors to be Year 2000 ready. Commenting on Year 2000 compliancy com·pli·an·cy n. Compliance. Noun 1. compliancy - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others complaisance, obligingness, compliance, deference , Fred (Friendly Rollabout Engineered for Doctors) A mobile medical conferencing unit. See videoconferencing. 1. FRED - Robert Carr. Language used by Framework, Ashton-Tate. 2. C. Young, Chief Executive Officer of Black Box Corporation, said, "There is a tremendous concern in the marketplace about potential Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 related business interruptions. We are pleased to announce our worldwide readiness for the next millennium millennium [Lat.,=1,000 years], the period of 1,000 years in which, according to some schools of Christian eschatology, Christ will reign again gloriously on earth. Belief in the millennium, based on Rev. 20, has recurred in Christianity since the earliest times. . Our customers will be able to rely on Black Box for the same quality services and products to which they are accustomed with the highest confidence of performance." Mr. Young went on to say, "We will have additional technical support personnel available to our customers during the Y2K bewitching be·witch tr.v. be·witched, be·witch·ing, be·witch·es 1. To place under one's power by or as if by magic; cast a spell over. 2. To captivate completely; entrance. See Synonyms at charm. hours. Black Box will be ready, but there may be other challenges our customers face that we will be prepared to help resolve during the critical stages of Year 2000." Black Box is a leading worldwide technical service provider of computer communications and networking services and related products to businesses of all sizes, operating in 77 countries throughout the world. |
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