Supporting thousands of users, will reveal something quite significant: ordinary people chafe under restrictive IT "policies" designed to keep ill-educated, rock-bashing IT administrators in their jobs.
If one of your users wishes to install Linux because it will improve his work, or save the company money, he should be able to do it. Computer technology was introduced to business to make wokers more productive. Recently, it seems computing department managers and their staff have entrenched the doctrine of "computers are necessary for workers to function, and we are the gods of business computing."
This little article may not indicate a trend, but attempting to squash out any possibility of change says most about the sort of people who populate IT departments, and want their favourite technologies to remain the "real-world standard for business."
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Supporting thousands of users, will reveal something quite significant: ordinary people chafe under restrictive IT "policies" designed to keep ill-educated, rock-bashing IT administrators in their jobs.
If one of your users wishes to install Linux because it will improve his work, or save the company money, he should be able to do it. Computer technology was introduced to business to make wokers more productive. Recently, it seems computing department managers and their staff have entrenched the doctrine of "computers are necessary for workers to function, and we are the gods of business computing."
This little article may not indicate a trend, but attempting to squash out any possibility of change says most about the sort of people who populate IT departments, and want their favourite technologies to remain the "real-world standard for business."
Take your hand off it, Anonymous Coward.