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Unix migration: Managing the migration

' ... Basically we want to go as safely and as simply as we can. ... ..how long it takes to get the hardware is a major issue of course. That can often be two or three months. I would reckon we could probably put the whole thing up together within a month of that. ... Be sure that the hardware is ok. The hardware is my weak spot as it were, so I can't estimate how long it's going to take to set that up to our satisfaction. It's going to be a few days, a week perhaps. ...

We'll do the UK first. Both machines in the UK first. Well, essentially, the development machine first because that will be our test. But then the live one in the UK. The development will be configured as a backup. The two other locations will be done at a later date. ... The client, the application doesn't need changing at all, it's the same interface. Likewise the transfer mechanism. It doesn't know that the server's changed. ... '

X042 page 001.03a (tape 04.2.02a) Matt Notes/Tape 14/06/94

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