That's a potentially deadly problem I call "management by managers".<p>One can also refer to Scott Adams' point-haired boss character for further enlightenment.
Hey, who you trust more?:<p>a)A program that is in your own servers - computers.
b)A program that is on others computers.<p>So difficult to understand why people trust A more than B. Whatever they promise you, they can look at your data if they want, not so easy in A.<p>E.g The NSA have the option to see whatever they want in the USA, they have it so easy to do industrial espionage against other countries(they did it with airbus, with national security excuses).<p>Google can't say no to NSA. Microsoft either(they let them put backdoors in their software), but is not so easy.
So to summarize:<p>"Microsoft sucks, but I know their stuff, and I'm too afraid to change."<p>Also, 12 people, from companies of which I've heard of two (NAMICO and Lincoln Financial) do not a comprehensive poll make.
And how many of these same IT managers route every last piece of corporate email through Postini?<p>The hypocrisy and FUD in corporate IT is out of control.<p>Most IT managers today are survivors from the days when "IT" was basically a blue-collar job - running cables, installing switches, and hiring other companies to do all the application layer work. Their days are numbered, so they cling to the glory days when desktop software made by Microsoft made everything so difficult for end users that a huge in-house IT organization was viewed as a necessary evil.
n = 12 ?<p>i'd love to see this poll done with startups: founders that were in diapers when DOS was launched. also, for the 8 that voted microsoft, what do their organizations as a whole vote toward?