Accra (Greater Accra) 28 May '99

Mr Alan Harris, Managing Director of Computer Based Systems (CBS), a local computer consulting firm, has called on institutions and organisations in the country not to be obsessed about changing softwares in their computers with the hope of making them Y2K compliant.

He also called on companies with computers not to rush to change or buy new computers with the hope of skipping the millennium bug problem.

Mr Harris was speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Accra on Thursday.

"You need to look at the hardware as well, since some softwares are dependent on the hardwares to operate".

Mr Harris said companies using computers rated 386, 486 and Pentium do not necessarily have to buy new ones that are claimed to be year 2000 compliant.

He said CBS which supplies UPS systems from 600 KVA and above, has also a system called BEST Systems for accounting and business information.

CBS has been operating in Ghana since 1990 and deals in networking including fibre optic technology, sales, service of computer systems and related equipment.