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I've worked for university sized companies. I'm not sure why setting up a fileshare would be difficult. What's to sign off on? Space and a couple VMs? Red tape
by alar44 4y ago
I've worked for university sized companies. I'm not sure why setting up a fileshare would be difficult. What's to sign off on? Space and a couple VMs? Red tape aside, I don't see the challenge.
- frereubu 4y agoI don't say this sarcastically, genuinely, but when you've worked in a university I imagine you'd have a very different view of something like this. I've worked in three - all in the UK, so I suppose that might make a difference - and the bureaucracy can be positively Byzantine. On top of just getting approval for the service, which could involve you in meetings where people split hairs to the point you're having conversations about semantics that would make Wittengstien weep, you now have to persuade a whole load of different departments to use your internal service over just them sticking their own stuff on YouTube. A university isn't a single, cohesive organisation, it's a collective of disparate organisational units, all with different agendas, and each of those organisational units has it's own internal struggles. It gets very political - in the broadest sense.
- Closi 4y agoWell if your reasoning is that you can only ever use YouTube because you can only ever use YouTube then I guess you can only ever use YouTube.