When this issue of the Cutter IT Journal reaches you, about 150 days remain before the arrival of the Year 2000 "rollover" event. The optimists believe that, notwithstanding a few glitches, the IT industry will be able to get back to "business as usual," whatever that means. And the pessimists believe that, even if we avoid catastrophes such as nuclear meltdowns, the IT industry is likely to spend much of 2000 dealing with unexpected bugs, broken supply-chain links, and other problems. Since it's only a few months before the arrival of Year 2000, we felt it useful to explore some of these scenarios in more detail. If nothing else, it may provide some important input to the annual IT planning process that typically occurs in the late fall and early winter.