Computer Co-op Can Ease Year-2000 Bug

To the Editor:

Great article on the year-2000 computer problem (“Preparing for the 2000 Bug,” December 3).

The Central Indiana Community Foundation is currently conducting “Y2K” assessments of the 18 non-profit agencies housed in our building. We have discovered a 60-per-cent failure rate of the computers we examined. Additionally, approximately 85 per cent of the software used by these agencies has moderate to serious problems.

To maximize the foundation’s dollars to address this issue, our non-profit tenants and our grantees have formed a buying co-op. Local vendors have competed for our business. Since sizable purchases are guaranteed in the next few months, we were able to leverage price breaks up to 45 per cent.

Gregory McMillen
Information-Systems Manager
Central Indiana Community Foundation
Indianapolis