In June 1994, GIS recommended that the large Multinational servers should be converted to Unix at a cost of £200,000 to cure the problem of Sybase crashing (00042, 00526). It was estimated that this could be installed by mid August 1994 (00577). In practice there was a misunderstanding about approval to go ahead (00734) so implementation was delayed.
In August 1994, the new Unix system was scheduled to go live on 10 October (Alan - 00771) or 22 October 1994 (Jenny - 00655).
On October 14 1994, they were running a week or two behind the August plan for the migration to Unix (00075). Delivery was being delayed because a special comms card had not been ordered early enough (00736) and because Gordan wanted to test it thoroughly (00721).
By January 1995, the migration to Unix had been made live in the UK and Holland and was about to go live in the States (00871).
© Clare Tagg 2000