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The way in which Information Technology (IT) has been viewed and used for over eleven years in a United Kingdom (UK) state primary school is told by the participants. This story reveals that the vision which lay behind the initial (funded) IT project has not been sustained. The reasons behind this loss of vision are analyzed both in terms of internal and external influences.

Qualitative Solutions and Research (QSR) provide merge tools for combining NUD*IST or NVivo 'projects' as neither package enables more than one researcher to work on a data set simultaneously (although, of course, turn-taking on the computer is possible). These tools appear to offer researchers collaborating in pairs and in teams the option to develop work separately and combine it for cross-analysis. Although the merge tools are easy to use, doing so effectively imposes some important limitations on the use of QSR software. This paper discusses four strategies for using merge effectively in team research.