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Research firm Gartner Group Inc. has released its latest quarterly year 2000 world status report, and the results show a widening compliance gap between have and have-not countries, as well as some disturbing trends in the rate of software readiness.
Lou Marcoccio, year 2000 research director with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner, made the comments during a Web telecast from Gartner's Spring symposium/IT Expo '99 in San Diego in march. below are some of Marcoccio's major findings.
There is a growing Y2K readiness discrepancy between the world's wealthy and poor countries.
"Basically, what we see happening is that countries that have been further ahead, the countries that have higher GDPs and industrialization ... have sped up their process dramatically within the last quarter," Marcoccio said.
While he called recent efforts by the United Nations to offer Y2K assistance to poorer nations "gallant," he stressed that so far they have had only modest results.
"The separation is getting more and more prominent as we go into the next quarter," he said. However, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong and France have made impressive strides in 1997, he added.
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