The GMU Finding Aid for Warfield Special Collection has this entry: Box 46, Folder 1 "Synergistic Solutions Ver. # 4.34 June 19 '98. Expires April 30 '99, undated "Synergistic Solutions Version #4.34, Licensed to John N. Warfield," Property of Desyma Decision Technologies, 1998-1999 The GMU Finding Aid for Warfield Special Collection ALSO has this entry: Box 101, Folder 8 "Synergistic Solutions Ver. # 4.34 June 19 '98. Expires April 30 '99, undated"

Apparently GMU has two copies of whatever it is. One record might be the DISK, and another folder might hold a printout of a pdf file, especially since the GMU Finding Aid lists a third synergistic solutions entry, this one for Box 46 Folder 3 which reads: "Synergisitc Solutions Floppy Disks - I & II," Owned by Bill Rodgers, 1996." So we have duplicate donations or at least duplicate records in the Finding aid, but I am afraid to erase box numbers for any of these SC&A records until I can actually get there and investigate boxes 46 and 101 in person which may be never. -

What this entry means is that there is either a PDF FILE MAYBE, OR a compact disk with ISM software written by employees of Bill Rodger. His company, in Ottawa, Canada was named DESYMA. Bill Rodger gave a copy of the software to Warfield for testing. The software had an expiration date, so it would no longer be operative after 30 April 1999. The purpose of the disk was to take it to Africa to test it in an actual Interactive Management real life situation, which was taking place in Accra, Ghana, where Warfield was going to give a series of workshops. The Ghanaian technicians loaded the software onto their computers and used it for the IM sessions and it worked fine, I believe. Warfield also wrote a very elementary User Guide to go with Bill's software, which is on Rose Warfield's computer. We must have sent Bill's software disk to George Mason University to add to the Warfield Collection, and that is how it is listed in the Finding Aid as "Synergistic Solutions." Bill had visited in Warfield's office several years earlier (March 1996) when first starting up his company. Bill had a graduate student writing the software. Bill said he had learned about ISM through employees at Northern Telecom in Canada, where Bill had worked for a time,(I think). Bill's company, as far as I know, is still active today, he operates chiefly in the UK, he has teamed up with a Britisher named Michael McMaster and together they have had some IM business, but now calling their software something else to correspond with their company name which is now changed to "Complexity Solutions", or maybe "Sorach" but I am not sure about the "Sorach" which might be another Canadian outfit. Both Bill and Michael McMaster met and talked to Warfield on several occasions, and they were on good terms. They have not sent Warfield any regular information on their company or its activity. Bill's full address and phone etc are all in my Microsoft Outlook files, where I see mention of another name Peter Miles who is now working with Bill. I know nothing about Peter Miles. R.w., circa 2007 probably