This article sums up every IT department ive had the misfortune to call for any IT support.
A classic example - I managed a mac based design studio in one of the largest oil companies in the world.
We recently upgraded to Mac OS X Panther, got G5's etc and expanded.
I needed an ethernet port made active in a floorbox by one of the network guys and I had to avoid the fact that it would be used by a new 17" Imac.
If I had told him it was for anew designer who will be using a mac he would have said "we don't support macs - macs arnt allowed on the network".
Fucking windozzzzz losers -WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE - Why are all IT departments so blind to an alternative??