Several years ago I worked with a large multinational company where every site had their own IT teams. A lot of mergers, etc. Probably much like BAE. A firm who

Several years ago I worked with a large multinational company where every site had their own IT teams. A lot of mergers, etc. Probably much like BAE. A firm who's major product is info. Some of those teams were extremely incompetent. My client had made a video of the CEO speaking to the whole company which turned out wouldn't fit on their internal sharepoint site because there was a 50 meg limit for videos. The CEO was not at all impressed with the quality of a 20 min video at 50 meg so in desperation, they ended up asking us to host it for them. But then vimeo didn't work for some sites, then wistia for others, in the end we ended up having to set it up on Amazon's cloudfront. So each site had their own firewall rules, own white-lists, bad IT connections, etc. Throughout this debacle, we got claims of our incompetence by IT personnel at their various sites. Really opened my eyes at how disorganised a large organisation can become, as well as how people can hold positions in large orgs that they have no ability to perform by politicking. And that's how you end up with loads of different versions of software at different sites in the same company. EDIT: Actually, I recall incorrectly, we originally used cloudfront, which didn't work, then vimeo was blocked on some sites, but no-one had blocked wistia yet as they were still a fairly new entrant. Random endorsement: Wistia are great, love their API, love their support, great video hosting company.