I was rereading the announcement and saw this :

Unitas Shard Database Testing To Begin

We have received the Unity Shard dBase from Digital Brothers, along with many other files and dBases, in order to start our testing to determine if it will be practical to transfer the Unity shard to U.S. operations. Assuming we are able to complete this evaluation and related processes, we are looking to start Unitas Shard operations in January 2007
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...and if it is determined to not be practical?? What then?