Macromedia up its own arse over Flash

This is a very important topic to discuss but it is not technical in nature and has been moved to the Macromedia-Talk list.

We have images and all of our applications are in ZenWorks, but we have only about 2000 workstations, and one netadmin. It is against hospital policy to download stuff because if we allow it, and it is illegal, then we will be fined. Being a non-profit, we can't afford licensing fines. This was just a comment. It really has no point ... ;) Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer The Children's Medical Center One Children's Plaza Dayton, OH 45404 937-641-4293 http://www.childrensdayton.org cottrellc@childrensdayton.org ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- :( Honestly I've never worked in a large company that demanded that kind of adherance to the base image.  Sure an image is used to create the machines (actually in most cases I've seen the vendor does this, Dell or Compaq or whomever) but after control is often left to the end user. On the other hand medium sized-companies often seem to do this.  I assume it's because they're moving towards consolidation.  But when the company gets REALLY big there's just no way to manage that many disparate needs.  So you either play a losing game of "custom image" or give up some control. Of course the by line is always "support only for supported platforms" and that works for the vast majority of business and support personel, but us tech geeks just always gotta be thorns... My company (and it's children) has on the order of 13,000-17,000 machines... There are published standards and images, but not much in the way of post install restrictions.  I've also worked at three... No four other companies of similair or smaller sizes that also didn't lock down like this.  I dunno - maybe it's just the insurance industry. ;^) Of course there ARE many companies that DO just what you described - but to make a blanket statement just isn't right. Jim Davis