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95%
95% -- completion rate for large companies in the US (1999)
Large companies in the US were 95% complete with their Y2K remediation projects as of late 1999.
- Refers specifically to Y2K remediation project completion
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95%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
1999
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B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
82
Source
International Data Corp.
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Tier A
https://www.zdnet.com/article/y2k-now-is-not-the-time-to-panic/ ↗
Source Article
Y2K: Now is not the time to panic
Y2K: Now is not the time to panic
When the clock strikes midnight on December 31, the biggest problem you could be facing may not come from your computer, but from your friends and neighbors.
Companies monitoring the Y2K bug say that some of the most immediate problems that will strike around the Ne…
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International Data Corp.
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Analysis of Y2K remediation completion among large companies.
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Channelcommon_crawl
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large companies in the US: 95% completion rate. Source: International Data Corp. (1999). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/large-companies-y2k-remediation-1999
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