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Unix migration: Managing the migration

' ... [Alan was been working on it.] He's very good, technically, very good. He's working on it with a new person who joined the team a few weeks ago, who's basically just come in as a tester, you know: "You go through these screens and make sure the ones on the NLM do exactly the same as the ones on the"..you know, that kind of testing. You get every screen up, he's an extra pair of hands really. Len who's..we froze all enhancements and bug fixes, everything was frozen two weeks ago. Len is working full time on it and he's in particular focusing on the electronic transfer side of the system, testing it back. What we had, because in the report there were some problems highlighted with the transfer system, we had a massive purge on all of that, and that works well now. ...

So Len's working on it and a guy called Gus as well is involved. Len has been on the team for the last nine months or so, Alan's been on for the last 12 months. ... Gus joined the team in April. Gus replaced a contractor who left then. ... this plan just covers ... the plans for the UK. We will do Holland and America next, but really they should be very straightforward, having, it's the same process. It's just the database unit you know, that's all. So if it all works in the UK, it will all work in Holland and America. Now we need to send people out to do that.'

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