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Sun is ready for the Year 2000Anyone involved in information technology today is concerned about the impending century and the effects that changing to the year 2000 will have on their computing environments. On January 1, 2000, many applications and some hardware that have only two digits in the year field for date dependent calculations may fail. The difficulty today is determining which applications and environments are the ones that might fail. Solving Business Needs:Sun hardware and the Solaris operating environment kernel are year 2000 compliant by design and will handle dates well into the next century.To assist application developers in creating applications that are safe for the coming century, Sun developed the Year 2000 Program. As part of this program, Sun created the software ABI tool to test for year 2000 problems in application software. Sun developers are using this tool to make Sun applications year 2000 compliant. It can be downloaded from this web site with its testing guidelines. This tool is available to external developers and to customers concerned about their applications and environments free of charge. Sun is committed to working with these organizations today to ensure a safe transition to the year 2000. By using software products developed by Sun, organizations that base their technology solutions on Solaris will be well prepared for the new century. Summary of Benefits:
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