Today was the start of the Go Live for the systems moving to Europe, eventually that will mean all the systems. For now it will only be the four that we have put over this weekend, if indeed they are implemented successfully. After an extremely long day the systems now reside on a server in the European Data Center, the users are mainly in the North of England and the Samba Shares are some where else at the moment.
The day started badly with delays of an hour, this was accumulated before we even started. Once the data transfers took place, these delays had been reduced to a negative figure as we were well ahead of schedule. It seemed to be fairly promising at this point, so the Breakfast was procured and off we went again – indeed at one point we were an hour ahead of the game. But alass that was as good as it got, the business testing took much longer than expected. This was followed up with a Samba problem, which as it turns out is the only problem remaining.
Although this project seemed at the outset to be very ambitious, many people have worked many extra hours in order to get the whole thing leveled out. The business users probably have little idea of how much work has gone into this project, they will arrive on Monday to be greeted by some minor problems. They will as soon as a problem is identified, group together like Herbivores when a large Carnivore is around and then exibit that most unusual of traits – The Stampede of Stupidity. Heading towards the IT support people, we will no doubt find that there will be half a dozen calls from the business all related to the same fault and all describing the problem by differing symptoms.