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I live in northwest England, the fabled land of black puddings and meat pies.

I have been in and out of the IT arena since 1969, with 24 years at IBM, 3 years with Oracle, 6 years working for Sun Microsystems, and 1 year at a major UK bank. I have been involved with more areas of IT than you could shake a stick at: Y2K, Information Management System (IMS), Customer Information Control System (CICS), storage, laser printing, OCR, OMR, UNIX, MVS, MUMPS, Pick, training, platform migrations, benchmarks, data center migration, and customer planning, architecture, and support, among many other things.

In this book, I have made liberal use of diagrams and graphs, as I believe the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. In addition, ...

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