' ... I think the way it is right now, it would be difficult to maintain it as time goes by. I think it's ok as it is, we can add the accounts module and other things to it but the system will become more unwieldy. ... that's how I sold to the business people the concept of us re-engineering the database and doing this re-working of certain things to make it more maintainable for us and for them when new things come along, to make it easier for us to change it and include them. ... The interesting thing is that because we delivered everything on time, and under budget, nobody's worried about us doing this extra work now. I think if we'd been hopelessly late, and it would have cost a lot more, they would have..there's no way you are doing any re-engineering, we'll live with what we've got. I think we kind of bought ourselves time to do this almost.'X022 page 021.02 (tape 03.1.09) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94
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