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Techies Told to Take 'Soft' Approach to Office Success
Overview Repeated efforts at Nationwide Mutual Insurance to try Linux on the mainframe faced opposition, some of it from IT employees worried that a mainframe-server consolidation would be a threat to their jobs. But their resistance offered a mainframe systems engineering consultant at Nationwide a lesson that he put into use after the project was approved. Finally, with strong backing from Nationwide's upper IT management, work on the project began in 2005. Nationwide is running about 1,500 Linux-based production applications on the mainframe. That is helping to hold in check the growth of the insurer's installed base of 6,000-plus servers, and the company expects to save about US$15 million over three years by moving more applications to the mainframe.
| Publisher | IDG (International Data Group) | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | April 2007 | ||
| Format | Case Studies | ||
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