In the continued
effort to provide you with Year 2000 remediation tools, Microsoft
offers a list of companies that offer Year 2000 remediation tools
and may be able to assist you in your Year 2000 remediation efforts.
For this tool to be listed on this site does not indicate an
endorsement or recommendation on the part of Microsoft for either
the manufacturer, its products or the underlying technologies being
used. You will need to do your own assessment to determine if the
tools offered meet your needs. For information regarding this
company or its Year 2000 solutions, please contact the company
directly.
Dana Prussoff
dprussoff@symantec.com
http://www.symantec.com/
Norton 2000 Corporate Edition
Your organization's Year 2000 exposure extends to your desktops
as well as to your mainframe and network applications. You need to
prevent hardware or software ambivalence in mission-critical data
residing on desktop and laptop computers. Even more importantly, you
need to resolve desktop-level Y2K anomalies when data is downloaded
from or uploaded to mainframe computers - or risk having errors
reintroduced into the system.
Norton 2000 makes it easy to resolve the three main Y2K issues
for desktops: hardware problems such as the BIOS, commercial
off-the-shelf application compliance, and end user created data.
Norton 2000 is a comprehensive solution for desktop and laptop
computers in distributed computing environments, integrating with
Norton System Center to provide single-console administration. It
includes a BIOS test and fix, as well as a data-scanning component
that discovers Y2K problems in spreadsheets and database files and a
Fix Assistant for MS Excel files. Norton 2000 will also audit
installed applications on each PC against a database of Y2K
compliant applications, as reported by each vendor. Symantec's
LiveUpdate technology ensures that your application database is kept
current. In addition, detailed reporting options can help you
pinpoint specific problems and track your organization's remediation
effort.
Norton 2000 parses and detects potential Year 2000 problems in
many of the most popular spreadsheet and database applications such
as MS Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Quattro Pro, MS-Access, Paradox and dBASE
as well as end user written applications. Files not recognized as
database or spreadsheet files are also examined with an Unformatted
File Scanner.
Norton 2000 identifies and reports on all two-digit dates near a
conversion cusp, dates that will change value with a software
upgrade, spreadsheet functions that reference problematic cells and
Norton 2000 also examines Visual Basic source code and macros
embedded in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and indicates date-related
computations and variables. For databases, problematic tables and
fields as well as screen data masks are identified. Additionally,
for easy identification of problems in Excel worksheets, Norton 2000
can color-code and annotate a copy of the original file and provide
assisted remediation.
System Requirements:
Windows 95/98, Windows NT 3.51 or higher
Intel 80486 or
higher
35 MB hard drive space
32 MB RAM
Windows 3.x
Intel 80486 or higher
20 MB hard drive
space
32 MB RAM
