Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office
by jlgosse on Friday September 18, 2009 @06:47PM
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I've also done quite a stint at IBM, and I can tell you there is nothing easier than getting approval for a software license. The max it'll take is 1-2 days for basically anything you want. Obviously your tech writer friend wasn't too important if he couldn't even get a license for Office. Also, I had a friend in tech writing, and they didn't use Office; Instead, they used some sort of XML mark-up for designing documents.
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Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office
by derwiki on Friday September 18, 2009 @07:09PM
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To abossy's point, I know the tech writer in question, and remember the struggles she had to get a simple piece of software. I don't think it should matter "how important" she was -- if she needs it to do her job, she should get it. IBM's policy cost them more in her un-productivity than it saved in the license cost.