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What affected the choice of system boundary?: Changes in vision

The relationship between the new Multinational system and the mainframe systems varied through the life of the project. At one end of the spectrum, the Multinational system replaced existing mainframe systems making X more independent of the X-Group; at the other extreme, the Multinational system was just drawing data from the mainframe systems. It seemed as though Colin in the original strategy work favoured the replacement of mainframe functionality whereas Gordan when he took over proposed drawing data from the mainframe systems (00317).

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