You could have made the best software in the world, but as someone who now works as an in-house developer for a medical research university, there's almost no w

You could have made the best software in the world, but as someone who now works as an in-house developer for a medical research university, there's almost no way for individual researchers to have significant influence on IT budgets. Sure, there are always a few rock stars who pull in huge grants and thus have some control over institutional spend, but in general the operations side of academia has little influence on what software is bought/used. Because of this, I've found there's quite a bit of (understandable) apathy among researchers with regards to anything related to IT - you have no control over it, it's a miserable necessity for your real job.