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Then, in 1998, the company split, with Carol retaining the original company, while Mike established '''Unicorn Financial Solutions''' (UFS) to service UBS's biggest and oldest customer - a City of London Stockbroker with an investment administration business based in Farnham, UK, for whom Mike had designed and written a comprehensive system (in [[DataFlex]], first on CDOS, then Unix) which was the core of their business. | Then, in 1998, the company split, with Carol retaining the original company, while Mike established '''Unicorn Financial Solutions''' (UFS) to service UBS's biggest and oldest customer - a City of London Stockbroker with an investment administration business based in Farnham, UK, for whom Mike had designed and written a comprehensive system (in [[DataFlex]], first on CDOS, then Unix) which was the core of their business. | ||
For her part, Carol, tired of [http://en. | For her part, Carol, tired of [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herd_cats herding cats] (this problem had been a major factor in Mike's reasons for splitting/leaving as well), down-sized the development arm of the business, switching from employed developers to an independent-consultant business model for servicing those needs, and rebranding the company as '''Unicorn InterGlobal''' (UIG), moving from London to Maidenhead - about 40km to the west. | ||
In 2005 however UFS's single significant client closed down (for complicated corporate reasons, involving their parent company's regulatory and governance woes) and all the staff had to be laid off (without ''too'' much pain: there had been over a year's warning), leaving Mike to try and make an honest living, which he did, in part by acting as one UIG's consultants. | In 2005 however UFS's single significant client closed down (for complicated corporate reasons, involving their parent company's regulatory and governance woes) and all the staff had to be laid off (without ''too'' much pain: there had been over a year's warning), leaving Mike to try and make an honest living, which he did, in part by acting as one UIG's consultants. | ||
In 2006 Carol, for various personal reasons, decided that she would, bizarrely, prefer to live a life of luxury in the Caribbean than continue to run UIG, and so sold UIG back to Mike. The office was again moved, this time to just south of Reading, about 60km west of London, where the company is to be found today. | In 2006 Carol, for various personal reasons, decided that she would, bizarrely, prefer to live a life of luxury in the Caribbean than continue to run UIG, and so sold UIG back to Mike. The office was again moved, this time to just south of Reading, about 60km west of London, where the company is to be found today. | ||
(PS: Tanned, but bored, Carol eventually returned to the UK... but is no longer working in the DataFlex community.) | |||
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