Corporate IT is Often a Jerkwater Town
Some companies have wonderful, helpful, capable IT organizations. They are current with modern operating systems, networking, file sharing, caching and proxying, security, etc. They provide a high level of customer support to the business and software development. They rock, and work well with people. Other places, the corporate IT thinks they are "the show" and the job of the organization is to follow their lead. They own the environment and are kind enough to allow developers and business to inhabit their world, provided they stay within the rules. Okay, that's unfair. It's often not really arrogance, it just seems that way from a distance. In reality, IT (especially corporate IT) can be a very insular world. They can specialize in the systems that the company used to have, and be open to extending -- say to the latest Micro$oft technologies -- but they just don't have any reason to know about OS X, Linux, Unix, or tablet devices. After all, everyone they k...