Yeah but those $90 savings make IT management look good, and that 80k/year doesn't come out of IT's budget. Also the productivity loss can't objectively be measured or will just be blamed on the employee.

Pisses me off no end when companies cheap out on IT equipment. I work in a place where a large number of us will be on £35 - £55k, yet the IT budget for each of us is less than 1% of our salary over 3 years.

It's crazy. Don't employ professionals then give them low end enthusiast gear.

I blame accounting. Although I also think that Acrobat's price is BS.

I worked for a small multinational (20.000ish employees).

The licensing department saved about 3 mio USD/year when they started going at license pinching.

$90? Where can I get Adobe Acrobat for $90? Standard is 14.99 per month! I'd buy that shit all day if it was a one time fee of $90.

Yeah, this penny pinching on licenses is pretty absurd. I promise you that it hardly affects the bottom line.

No shit man. I just pay for my own. Ain't worth arguing with IT. Saved me a shit ton of time reliably converting and editing PDFs.