Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure
To: Partners, Vendors, Customers
From: Control Master, Inc.
Date: August 2, 1999
Re: Product Year 2000 (Y2K) Readiness Disclosure
Scope: CMX V4.2x Process Control System Server, CMX V1.0
History Client and Server, REAL/32 O/S V7.7x and V7.8x, REAL/32 Net
Client and Server, and REAL/32 WinServer.
Control Master, Inc. is committed to the testing and reliability
of their products with respect to Year 2000 and other dates. CMI
represents that it has taken the appropriate steps to ensure that
its current, as detailed under 'Scope' above, and future products
will properly process date and time related data correctly,
according to the British Standards Institute guidelines, for dates
up to, including and after January 1, 2000 and through until January
1st 2035. See web site http://www.bsi.org.uk/disc/year2000.html.
CMI tests its products as part of its release process and with a
variety of third-party products, however, CMI cannot guarantee that
third-party products are fully compliant and warns that use of CMI
products with non-compliant third-party products may cause CMI
products to misrepresent the date or time.
Also, IMS, the publisher of the REAL/32 O/S has a more detailed
document called IMS Products and the Year 2000 this document is
published on the IMS web site (http://www.imsltd.com/imsy2kpolicy.htm).
This document that describes what "millennium compliance"
means to users of REAL/32 and what other issues need to be taken
into consideration when analyzing a system, using REAL/32, for
millennium compliance. The document describes the guidelines IMS
used during the millennium compliance testing of its products, what
parts of the product were tested. The CMI and IMS Product and the
Year 2000 document is considered part of this disclosure.
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