In my last permanent job (I've been back freelance for the last two years) I used to work for a large American oursourcing company which is now part of HP and most of the things you have listed chime with my experience. We weren't completely bolted down - could install software and frequently did - but otherwise, yes, this a pretty standard experience inside most large companies.
In one (small) company I did propose that we move all our web developers to Linux on the basis that almost everything they needed was available, and the odd thing that wasn't could be delivered over Citrix. Despite setting up a couple of demo development machines the management wasn't exactly overwhelmed, mainly I think because they couldn't get their heads around a machine that wasn't running Windows... On Feb 27, 8:24 pm, "phil.swen...@gmail.com" <phil.swen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am curious... I work for a large software vendor and our policies > are: > > -windows only (XP) > -outside IM is banned (we have internal jabber server) > -mandatory software that tracks every piece of software installed on > your machine > -manual proxy that tracks every outgoing web url (no banned urls tho) > -skype is strictly forbidden > -no use of SaaS software for company information > -virus checker on every machine, including servers (kills performance > on builds) > -encrypted harddrives > -itunes is banned > -VPN policy forces all traffic to be routed over internet > > The reasons behind this are supposedly that the company must track all > information for legal purposes. > > So I'm curious - do companies like Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel > have policies like this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
