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After phase II (Aug 94 - Feb 95): Marine system

'This is a separate project team. It's a good project team. It's a combination of GIS people and we've got somebody from XUK, because we're converting from the XUK mainframe. ... it's nothing to do with prototyping, because in terms of defining a specification, we use prototyping techniques, but we ended up with a written, formal specification. I agreed a fixed-price contract with them, whereby there's a 25% premium to that company, which is worth £200,000/£300,000, something like that, if they make the date next year for delivery and the final version system. So they'll lose a lot of money not delivering it. We had a big social night the other night where all the Eurobase team and the GIS team and the business people got together. I was actually quite encouraged because they are all really fired up, these Eurobase people. They are determined that they will get it in on time, which is good, so there's no complacency there. It's important to them in the market in London for them to make a success of it, so there are a lot of things in its favour.'

X060 page 004.05b (tape 03.2.03b) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/10/94

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