One of the benefits of the current global economic crisis is that
some organizations facing financial difficulties are considering options
that were not unmentionable only 6 months ago.
Spencer Graves
Carl Witthoft wrote:
It's just not that easy. A friend of mine at a large company whose
name rhymes with "Maytheon" spent over 3 months trying to get
approval from IT for a commercial database tool. IT departments tend
to be empire-building fools, and extraordinarily paranoid to boot.
At my parent company, whose name looks something like "Gorthrup
Numman," they have an entire IT Division whose goal in life seems to
be to make computer life hell for everyone else. When they say
"Office2007" that's what every NGC employee gets no matter what.
Anyone who has the temerity to run updates (even OS or Office)
downloads on their own risks the threat of termination. I'm not kidding.
So, this is rather OT for an R discussion group, but I wanted to add
credence to the others who've been posting horror stories about the
rules inside corporations.
I have to say I can't figure out how the IT dept's havent' noticed
that lots of these same employees WRITE software, and could easily do
far more damage (intentional or not) to the network than a few updates
or open-source packages ever could
Carl
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Neil Shephard <nshephard_at_gmail.com>
What alternative do they expect you to use?
If they expect you to use Excel for statistics then its worth letting
them know that this would be a very bad idea as there are many
short-comings, some of which I've referenced at..
http://slack.ser.man.ac.uk/progs/stata/avoid_excel.html
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