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Nikolaus received his phone call from Abel stating things were currently set up. He gave Nikolaus the user account and password along with the Web address for the distributor to connect. It would take more time before they could use the XML interface to send orders, receive invoices, and check…

Vladimir was sitting in his office going through the faxes he had received from Lenny. He sent most of them on to Dimitri and told Dimitri to contact Lenny directly. They should be able to obtain an apartment easily enough. He knew Dimitri’s people owned several buildings. The visa was…

Kathryn and Margret were in the conference room till almost noon on the Monday morning after the disastrous data center migration attempt. Finally, once all of the startup files had been verified and the new security file installed, the second Indian data center came online running the application. The machine…

Nikolaus greeted Abel with a firm handshake when he came to Nikolaus’s office. Abel had been a loyal party member willing to do whatever was asked of him. He currently was a senior VP at this corporation’s little-talked-about generic drug division. “It is good to see you again, Abel.” “And…

Money and Things Lenny was rather frazzled when he finally got back to the office. He knew the sun was up, but the sun had been up for well over fourteen hours and it was still morning. He didn’t quite know which morning, but it was morning here in the…

John was having an impossible day. The final data center migration did not work. His site was handling the full bank volume on a machine that was partitioned to handle slightly over half the banking volume easily. Adding insult to injury his boss’s boss was calling trying to find out…