> Cooperate IT is all about not getting fired and doing no wrong. It has very little to do with performance, power, or cost. From what I have seen this rule is

> Cooperate IT is all about not getting fired and doing no wrong. It has very little to do with performance, power, or cost. From what I have seen this rule is mostly about software which is vastly more complex than hardware for typical IT departments. So that 'not getting fired' is mostly about software. E.g our company still buy very expensive licenses from IBM, Oracle, SAP and so on. However as far was hardware goes it is super crappy HP laptops despite devs complaining about disk crashing, freezing and myriad other problems everyone still keep getting those.