>>Glad you added the smiley. We have no problem. We simply said, "We need tool x" and go buy it. Each dev is responsible for installing their own dev tools.
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>I'm having a problem when, for example, I need Word installed on user's server to run batch printing to PDF, and it turns out to be a whole bureaucracy of licence management. I'm seriously thinking of switching to OpenOffice for such purposes, simply because it doesn't need any add-on to do PDF and there's no licensing either. Or, when a developer needs to manipulate an image once in a blue moon, and has only Paintbrush - well, install Gimp and don't worry. Don't have to wait for some sort of admin to see whether there are licenses left, do we need to buy, how long will it take to deliver, when will the admin have the time... may take days (and I remember when it did), while with an OSF tool one can get it and install within minutes, and no accounting involved.

Yes, but Gimp does have a bit of a learning curve. <g>