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Multinational phase III: Development approaches

'Essex actually should have the City as well. So the City should be on there as well. And that what happens is in the North of England we're going to have a Replication server and everything that happens on these boxes will be replicated back here, and that will be used for two reasons, one for a kind of back-up if there are problems, although these things will be backed-up locally as well, but, more importantly, for central and corporate MIS. And the Replication service offered, Jane has really done quite a bit of work with Sybase. We got one of the.. we did a deal with Sybase before Christmas when we got their top consultant, somebody who's great ??? as long as we bought it before Christmas. So he's been involved in that, so it's not just Jane who's setting that up.

Now, to underpin all of this, we're having to revamp all of the comms ... We're going from ISDN to frame relay. ... Rather than have them all lead to each other, they will all have frame relay links back to England. So if Holland's got something that affects Melbourne, it won't go from Holland to Melbourne. It will go via the UK, ... via this Replication server. ... Basically it's clever enough to say "OK, this is the policy for Melbourne and immediately replicate it by this route over here. ... So it's pretty clever, though we haven't seen it work yet. It's proven technology in that some of the big banks are using it already, so we're not kind of pioneering it. It's already in place. It was built for one of the big merchant banks. So we've bought it all. ... Jane is heavily involved in that with Alan, and Sybase. ... '

X081 page 004.02a (tape 03.1.05a) Gordan Notes/Tape 17/02/95

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