Oh my God, not another IT scare, I hear you cry. We have experienced the Y2K syndrome, data eating viruses, 11 September disaster scenarios and now your friendly forward-thinking IT consultant is about to hit you with another big nasty.
Many of us have put off thoughts of euro conversion until the UK Government gets off the fence. You may have noticed that 12 European currencies have disappeared on the other side of the Channel since Christmas and life, as they know it, has not come to an end. The UK is not immune from this seismic shift. Our course will not be plotted until the results of an increasingly likely referendum are known within the next 18 months or so. Waiting for politicians is no way to run a business, plus given the effects of ‘euro-creep’, it is more than likely that the euro will be adopted here via the back door, simply because it will become the currency of commercial choice.
