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Phase II (Sep 93 - Mar 94): Marine investigation

'Unbeknown to I think anyone in MO, we thought GIS were applying all their energies to our database ... But the problem was that top management ... said Marine want a program written, ... it's just a vessel index. Don't ask me what a vessel index is precisely but basically I will assume it's listing all the vessels that we've got shipments on ... A complete database is going to be re-engineered, they're going to buy a database in and re-engineer it for Marine. So they knew that for example, Gordan, wasn't going to be spending 100 or 99% of his time on this database of ours he was actually going to be spending let's say 30%. We weren't aware of that certainly. In a way, he was tantermount to almost being taken off it and we weren't aware and therefore things started going a little bit awry.' ...

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