Cinderella concentrates on the impact of Y2k on Small Businesses and Individuals, so it specialises in PCs and LANS rather than on mainframes.
But don't be fooled, because although small is beautiful, the Cinderella Method has proved successful in some very large corporations as well.
The main idea is that you don't have to spend an arm and a leg on achieving compliance.
And you can still work with older levels of software. You don't necessarily have to upgrade to the latest stuff.
Essentially all systems from DOS 3.2 thru DOS 6.22 , Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5, Windows NT 4, OS/2 Warp 3 and Warp 4, Novell and Linux 2.0.30 up can work quite happily past 2000 and on up to around 2032, or 2099 if your'e lucky.
You just need to know a few tricks, like using only 4 digit years, or setting the date to Year Month Day format, and where to find some of the manufacturers patches.
The most important information that Cinderella provides is how to test applications and operating systems for yourself.
A list of new Y2k sites and articles, called "More Y2k Links", is regularly published on the main Y2k free lists.
The consolidation of all these listings, called the WEBREF database, around 3000 items indexed by Topic, can be displayed online or downloaded in Dbase, Excel or text format.
There are also some free tools and powerpoint presentations that you can download, and there is a very comprehensive Y2k Glossary of Terms.
On a weekly basis there are updates of the ITAA reports and the Equifax Word 6 Documents listing sites and articles.
The online part of Cinderella has been squished into one large zip file that you can download and browse offline. It's just more resource efficient and gives you a permanent reference tool.
Everything that Cinderella does is based on Zero Cost.
This is not a popular viewpoint. People would much rather have you pay for information or tools, but that's the way we work.
Y2k is a self help project. Cinderella gives you some of the tools and procedures to help make your system compliant.
Y2k Cinderella Project 1998-05-23