' ... over the last few weeks [I've] been in discussions with Sybase to migrate to the Unix version of the product ... and I have to put the proposal to X's board tomorrow, it's going to cost £200,000! My view is that unless we do that it will never be fully reliable, the system. ... I'm not totally convinced it will but ... my thinking is that is that the Unix version of the product is, that's their main product, that's their flagship product, and it's used in thousands of organizations in Europe and the US successfully. Contacts you know at Sybase user group meetings, people have said, well, we don't have these problems with Sybase ...X041 page 001.06 (tape 01.1.06) Gordan Notes/Tape 14/06/94The Unix product is called System 10, we're on version 4.2 in Novell, I mean, its just miles ahead of the Novell version in terms of functionality and bug fixes and so on and so forth and it offers us a lot of things that we don't, we don't have access to in..on Novell, for example, it has something called a Replication server where basically everything that's going on, it's like a mirroring type situation where everything is replicated on a back-up server so if the system did crash, ... then the other one could cut in straight away, ...
So, there's the proposal going in tomorrow, I mean I've done quite a bit of, lobbying behind the scenes so, it should go through.'
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