'{So this awayday is going to cover all of X's IT requirements?} Yes, not just the Multinational system but a lot of it is a development of and how it can be branched off into different things like on the accounting side. Whether we will touch on whether we should divorce totally from the mainframe, I don't think we will for sometime because of DTI requirements and all sorts of things. Having said that the idea in Holland of an accounts unit so they can divorce from the XNetherlands system because it's so unsuitable to our requirements. You can only do four transactions a day on a policy, there's a limit to the premium you can put through so sometimes you need to put through four transactions just to build up the premium. ... it's a totally different accounting system [here]. ... accounting services is secondary accounting, the money is collected in America or whatever is then reported back to us ... And that's all uploaded to the mainframe on A85 routine and what I've asking for long term is to consider the A85 becoming an automatic upload and that's not going to be a problem I think, I think that will happen. Again we may be talking three years down the road - it doesn't matter. 'X036 page 003.02 (tape 02.2.01c) Jenny Notes/Tape 02/03/94
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