Computerworld: Tech Pros Take ‘Soft’ Approach in Workplace

“Repeated efforts at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. 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.

“But 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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