' ... in the UK the two major operating companies are XLife and XUK and they both have big mainframe oriented IT departments but increasingly those departments are using PCs but they're basically mainframe. Huge volumes of business number crunching, ... in XLife its PL1/IMS in XUK its Cobol/IMS. There's no overall group IT strategy at any stage. And then you've got all of the smaller operating companies such as X, ... then there's the head office ... which is X-Group's head office, a personnel department, a finance department and various head office functions. And they are all serviced by GIS all of those various bits, and GIS has got about 70 or 80 people in ... 'X013 page 015.01 (tape 02..) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 30/09/93
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