Switzerland

Zurich

Dining Car of a Swiss train - Paris - Zurich

The Swiss trains were less sleek looking than the French ones, but the fresh salmon and local wine was excellent.

Zurich has a lake, a tidy town and mountains. Bit like Canberra. My purpose in visiting Zurich was to look at R&O Software's Rochade repository software (Mr. Werner Dreesbach, Managing Director, R&O Software, <100013.3153@compuserve.com>), in use by one of their customers. The customer is a large Swiss bank. I visited th bank's Data Administration area to look at their use of repositiory software. A very efficient operation with similar problems and solutions to my own work in Canberra.

After visiting the bank I checked my mail at Zurich University, courtesy of Christian Beglinger . Again this was very familiar, despite the difference in language everyone was talking and the different keyboards. The network speed was much better then from Oxford. However all the terminals in one room stopped working after a few minutes and we had to move to another.

At this point I discovered I had written an academic paper. "draft of vision for a network nation"