The following is designated as Cyborg Information Systems' year 2000 Readiness Disclosure position in regards to conformity with our entire product line (Last updated 10/5/99).

GoldMine® & CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems are Year 2000 Compliant!

The year 2000 is now fewer than 3 months away. As we draw closer, the Year 2000 Problem, sometimes referred to as the Millennium Challenge or 2000 Compliance, is poised to be one of the largest and most costly challenges ever faced by modern business. We want you to know that GoldMine® have been Year 2000 compliant since the release of version 3.0 in January 1996 and for GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems Software since the release of version 1.0 in September of 1999.

Many companies and the U.S. Government are requiring that Year 2000 Compliance be made part of the mandatory technical specifications of a product before it will be considered for acquisition. The General Services Administration (GSA) defines Year 2000 Compliance as follows:

"The software must perform fault-free in the processing of date and date related data (including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) by all hardware and software products delivered under this contract/procurement, individually and in combination, upon installation. Fault-free performance includes the manipulation of this data with date prior to, through, and beyond January 1, 2000, and shall be transparent to the user. Hardware and software products, individually and in combination, shall successfully transition into the year 2000 with the correct system date, without human intervention, including leap year calculations. Hardware and software products, individually and in combination, shall also provide correct results when moving forward or backward in time across the year 2000."

GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems adheres to this standard now and into the future. Below you will find a technical briefing on how GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems for Windows 3.x and higher and GoldSync™ 1.x and higher meet this standard. It is our position that this is the standard with which our products comply. However, it is up to your internal MIS professionals to determine whether compliance with this standard meets your requirements.

How has GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems met Year 2000 Compliance? Cyborg Information Systems, Inc. has taken the "procedural" approach to ensure Year 2000 Compliance. In version 1.0 and higher, GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems interprets dates using no century, so that dates after 01/01/50 default to the 20th century, and dates before 01/01/50 default to the 21st century. If you have scheduled an event to occur on 01/01/00, the default date will be January 1, 2000. Similarly, if an event is scheduled for 01/01/99, the event will occur on the default date of January 1, 1999, rather than 2099.

In addition, users of Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 can set the system date to reflect the full 4-digit year. Go to Start|Settings|Control Panel. Open Regional Settings. Select the Date tab and select the Short Date Style as MM/dd/yyyy. These settings will give users the ability to schedule events in GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems beyond the year 2050.

Compliance

CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems 1.x and higher, GoldMine® 3.x and higher and GoldSync™ 1.x and higher will function properly in years 19xx and 20xx. Calendar activities, etc. will all function properly. In two-digit fields the year will be shown as 99 for year 1999 and 02 for year 2002, respectively. Even though you may only see two digits, GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems internally stores the year in four-digit format, so dates will be sorted properly when they are displayed.

Epoch Settings

In order for GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems to determine whether a date being specified belongs in the 20th century, or the 21st century the "EPOCH=" setting is used. The Epoch setting works as follows:

If we set EPOCH=50 under the preferences, any date entered in GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems before 50 will default to 20xx. If a date of 50 or greater is specified, GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems will default to 19xx. GoldMine®/CIS MOSA™ & RESA™ Systems for Windows 95/NT4.0 allows the Epoch to be set under Edit|Preferences in the Misc. tab.

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