Standardization for support reasons. If you run an IT department you don't want the overhead of supporting a dozen different clients. Not to mention compatibility issues between clients, versions of PGP etc. etc. Standardization internally makes a lot of sense from a support perspective.
Not standardizing can cause fun with role accounts etc. too. Our organization as standard supports one Email client, I won't say which but you can guess if I tell you that none of the technical staff actually use it :) JC JH> Hello Stefan, JH> Thursday, February 13, 2003, 4:58:57 AM, you wrote: SS>>> I Use The Bat at home but am forced to use Outlook at work >> I hear the word "forced" from many people when it comes to their work >> places. As far as I understand, there is no violence involved, but >> anyway - why is it so? It's understandable if they are using MS >> Exchange throughout (The Bat! does not handle MS Exchange proprietary >> protocol), but if they are not, what is the reason? Well, may be it >> sounds like a silly question with an obvious answer, it is important >> for us (I mean - RITLABS) to hear what are the "other" reasons... JH> Hello Stefan, JH> I worked in the IT environment for the last 7 years (selling the JH> StorageWorks and AlphaServer Stuff since DIGITAL *sigh*) and I was JH> _always_ forced to use this or that software. Whichever it was, I was JH> forced to use it, simply because someone decided that everyone had to JH> use the same thing, and it was usually Microsoft. No matter, what JH> browser (IE), what office software (MS Office) or which email client. JH> The email client was a class of its own in some ways. That was not JH> always MS, that depended upon which management software the company JH> was using to include address books, appointments, faxes and most of JH> all some tracking software for the offers we sent to customers. When I JH> worked in a big company, that usually I ended up working with Slowtus JH> Notes (that program I hate the most of all!), with smaller companies JH> it was often some small obscure little management software that JH> included an email client of it's on. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
