'I got really angry with him [Alan]. I don't normally do that. That's not particularly my style. It was something that he..what he's not handled particularly well is communication with other people affected by the things that he's doing, so that includes the network people, it includes some of the support people. He's not kept them in the picture.X060 page 004.02 (tape 03.1.03) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/10/94It turns out that what I'd like to do is I'd like to base the machine down in Essex. We've got a development machine and a live machine, OK, and I'd like to put the live machine in Essex, because we're going to use a facility called Replication server after it's gone live. We're not doing that now. If it's a Replication server, why put the two boxes alongside each other? You get much more by the way of contingency and also it just might give us a little bit of extra performance.
... Of course we need some special kind of a comms card. ... We ordered it last week, but that's now jeopardising the date for plugging the box in in London, which has really annoyed me. I think I yelled at him. I did. Of course I shouldn't have, but I did. It wasn't his fault, I suppose. I think I only had a yell at him, because you've got to yell at people ... I apologised to him, which I wouldn't normally do, but I thought I would, because he's really new to be handling this kind of thing. He's not got that much experience and he's doing well at it. ... '
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