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Planning helps SA avoid problems
A COMPREHENSIVE approach to ensuring all critical areas were Y2Kcompliant saw SA roll over into the new millennium without any serious glitches, according to Allim Milazi, National Y2K Decision Support Centre spokesperson.
Providers of critical services, like Eskom, Telkom, Spoornet and the 57 banks, reported all system operated normally during the changeover to 2000.
But Arvind Hari, an information risk management partner at consulting firm KPMG, says although critical areas were compliant, there is still a long way to go as some non-critical systems still have to be checked.
The national Y2K centre will publish a report by the middle of the month but the centre will monitor the situation until March, says Milazi.
Analysts say companies used the millennium as an opportunity to modernise their networks. This made it difficult to estimate the cost of Y2K-readiness programmes. - Mboniso Sigonyela
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