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After a little over a year, Mike realised that he needed more people to service the increasing workload, but that he wasn't really competent to be anybody's employer, so he involved [mailto:carollaskin@hotmail.com Carol Laskin] as well. Carol initially worked as a software developer, but was also a 50% shareholder in the company and was its Managing Director. | After a little over a year, Mike realised that he needed more people to service the increasing workload, but that he wasn't really competent to be anybody's employer, so he involved [mailto:carollaskin@hotmail.com Carol Laskin] as well. Carol initially worked as a software developer, but was also a 50% shareholder in the company and was its Managing Director. | ||
Now on a sounder footing, the company was renamed '''Unicorn Business Solutions''' (UBS): both Carol and Mike had previously worked for a ([[DataFlex]] using) company called Phoenix Microsystems (later Phoenix Business Solutions) and had thus had come to believe that all software companies should be named after mythical creatures... at least that was the conclusion of one jolly good night in a restaurant in central London. Carol had recently bought a cottage in [http://pininthemap.com/1cbf6bcdc1d9fc94b Bloxham], near Banbury, called "''Unicorn Cottage''" in "''Unicorn | Now on a sounder footing, the company was renamed '''Unicorn Business Solutions''' (UBS): both Carol and Mike had previously worked for a ([[DataFlex]] using) company called Phoenix Microsystems (later Phoenix Business Solutions) and had thus had come to believe that all software companies should be named after mythical creatures... at least that was the conclusion of one jolly good night in a restaurant in central London. Carol had recently bought a cottage in [http://pininthemap.com/1cbf6bcdc1d9fc94b Bloxham], near Banbury, called "''Unicorn Cottage''" in "''Unicorn Lane''", so the logic of the situation - at least by the second bottle of wine - was clearly inescapable! | ||
Unicorn prospered and grew from 1990 to 1998, with offices in Chiswick, London, becoming first a [[DataFlex]] reseller, then, after the collapse of DIIMS (the UK distributor at the time), the provider of technical support to the UK DataFlex market, then, following the closure of Data Access UK, one of four - later two - UK Data Access distributors, by which time it had a turnover of around £1M and a workforce of around 20 - the majority of whom were software developers. | Unicorn prospered and grew from 1990 to 1998, with offices in Chiswick, London, becoming first a [[DataFlex]] reseller, then, after the collapse of DIIMS (the UK distributor at the time), the provider of technical support to the UK DataFlex market, then, following the closure of Data Access UK, one of four - later two - UK Data Access distributors, by which time it had a turnover of around £1M and a workforce of around 20 - the majority of whom were software developers. | ||
