“These are the bozos who created fiefdoms in many corporations, strangling any freedom and limiting everything you can possibly do because they trust NOBODY with technology except themselves.”
Cool...you work at a building where the maintenance department will let any employee go down to the basement and dink around with the HVAC system? If your business has a pool are you allowed to mess with the chlorine levels? Can you want into accounting and sort the paperwork anyway you feel like a day before an audit? Do you have any idea how ignorant you sound?
I know IT departments who chose the accounting software because accountants could not be trusted to choose what would work best for them.
I know IT departments who refused to allow a tie-in between production controls and the servers, forcing manual data collection to continue because they feared unfamiliar connections.
I know IT departments who controlled the creation of proprietary sales software (CRM) without allowing the sales department to provide any input.
I know IT departments who refuse to upgrade hardware so everyone ran on the same systems, even if it was outdated.
You are naive if you do not recognize how some IT departments used their knowledge to buffalo companies into making the IT job easier and everyone else's job more difficult.
IT is like accounting, they are mostly a service group inside a company with an advisory function ---- not a controlling function.
That is starting to change today as people become more tech-saavy.