Of the group I directly had contacts, people varied. They used Microfocus Cobol to rewrite the frame application for WINNT to cut down cpu cycles and costs. All appeared to be good at that. A few that interfaced with my operation varied. After one learning to trust what I said, took a huge interest in unix and learned a lot on his own. Another was very tenative and afraid but grudgingly used a few tools to verify what I was telling him about how the application behaved and the monitoring thereof. The biggest thing to overcome was distrust. They didnt know how unix worked and due to a problematic turf war with my predecessor had no trust in what was told to them. People fear what they dont understand. I never let fear and common sense hold me back.
thanx,
bill