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[News] Migration Story Reveals Unfounded Fear of Linux (The Effect of Stereotypes and FUD)

IT Pro Learns Lesson Through Linux Install

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| Repeated efforts at Nationwide Mutual Insurance to try Linux on the
| mainframe faced internal opposition, some of it from IT employees
| worried that a mainframe-based server consolidation would be a
| threat to their jobs. They "fought tooth and nail to keep it from
| happening," said James Vincent, a mainframe systems engineering
| consultant at Nationwide.
| 
| Their resistance taught Vincent a lesson that he put to use after
| the Linux project was finally approved in 2005. Part of Vincent's
| job involved working with the employees who had feared the
| project, including IT staffers who worked on Unix systems. 
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