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' ... I wanted to be involved with it and I didn't actually, well, I didn't realise the option of actually leading it was there. That was great, I must admit, a bit daunting because when Matt left, about ten seconds after Matt had told Gordan that he was leaving, Gordan asked to come and have a chat with me. Do you think you can do this? ... Well, basically Matt was going to do it and I was hoping, what I was hoping was the two of us would do it. We would have two people doing it and that Matt would be essentially leading it in terms of he had the greater knowledge of Sybase. Then Matt left and the idea then was that again there would be two of us doing it, myself and Gus who had just come in from another team so he had very limited knowledge of what we were doing and what we were using but that didn't quite work out because he got tied up on other things for GIS. It's been quite fortunate because in the last few weeks, we've had some new people starting and I've been able to give them testing assignments essentially looking at tests of parts of the actual system which meant that a) that they found out about the system and how it worked and b) I could get on with doing other things. ... '
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