MIKON Systems announces Year 2000 solutions for manufacturers.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 1997--At its Customer Days 1997 User Conference, Rick Curtis, president of MIKON Systems Inc., today announced the completion of internal validation of century date change compliance for MIKON(TM) and INTEKON(R) software and a program of strategic services to assist its manufacturing customers in addressing the approaching Year 2000 crisis. Commenting on the company's recent preparations for Year 2000 readiness, Curtis stated, "We've completed a program of testing and problem correction with MIKON and INTEKON and I can state with confidence that at the current update level, these products are ready for the Millennium date change. "Based on our study, however, a big job remains for many manufacturers in testing, validating, replacing and re-integrating their diverse factory subsystems." With special emphasis on manufacturers who depend on real time systems and face long lead times for system changes, Curtis described the approaching century date change compliance problem from an enterprise systems perspective. Curtis outlined a new service program which will be offered to existing MIKON Systems customers and included as a standard component with all new integrated system purchases. This program provides assistance with Year 2000 problem Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. assessment and planning studies, configuration management, application migration services, and quality-assured software integration and testing. Curtis added, "Coping with The Coping With series of books is a series of books aimed at 11-16 year olds, written by Peter Corey and published by Scholastic Hippo. The first book, Coping with Parents, was released in 1989, and the series continued until the last book, Coping with Cash the Year 2000 crisis at the factory level will require cool heads, excellent planning and quality execution. We're uniquely positioned to help." MIKON systems' announcement culminates several months of testing and validation activities for MIKON/Server and INTEKON/Server software on HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System and AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. (R) operating environments In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. , and MIKON/Client on Windows(R) 95 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. (R). More information is available on the MIKON Systems web site at www.mikon.com . Founded in 1990, MIKON Systems Inc., an Atlanta-based corporation, uses software to create Enterprise-Wide Data Visibility Through Connected Systems(TM). MIKON and INTEKON software are applied in manufacturing for integrated visibility of cost, quality and production information. -0- Note to Editors: MIKON is a trademark of INENCO INENCO Center for International Environmental Cooperation INENCO Research Center for INterdisciplinary ENvironmental COoperation AS. INTEKON is a registered trademark of MIKON Systems Inc. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. AIX is a registered trademark of IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Mikon Systems Inc. Rick Curtis, 770/804-5885 |
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