Net Team emerges from Dataway crash

Staff from defunct dealership Dataway Systems have set up Net Team, reselling Microsoft, Novell and hardware maintenance.

Bob Lant, Clive Rothwell and Alan Dixon started the Newbury-based reseller after being made redundant when Dataway went into receivership on 4 February, and have taken on six of Dataway?s former employees.

They took over Net Team, a shell company owned by Dataway directors Edward Moore and Robin Morgan, and have begun wooing former Dataway customers. Lant, MD of Net Team, said the firm had already won most of the old hardware maintenance business.

?The Microsoft groupware side will take rather longer, as the Dataway business had not had the chance to develop, but we have the technical resources to sell Microsoft and Novell and are hoping to achieve around #500,000 turnover in our first year,? he said.

PC Dealer revealed last week that staff from Dataway?s Novell business unit had started solus Novell reseller RPL. Before Christmas, the firm?s Lotus Notes division had been spun off as a separate firm, now called Net Team Management Systems and headed by ex-Dataway Novell business unit manager Bill Norman.

Net Team was registered as a separate company at the same time, intending to salvage the Microsoft business. But until Dataway went into receivership, Net Team existed only as a registered company name.

Dataway chairman Robin Morgan said he was happy that employees had found alternative employment and that customers were being serviced. He added that Dataway was within an ace of achieving success as a service-led reseller, but ?a large contract to supply Novell groupware got put on hold and the cost of employing expensive Novell specialists with nothing to do crippled us?.