Second is certain types of Enterprise shops. Before I
was hired at WMF,
I worked for a company that processes complex financial records for
pharmacies participating in a US federal program that reimburses
pharmacies for the cost of drugs prescribed for indigent patients. Well
over 50%
of
our users were on IE6/7. This was for two reasons:
one is that these
pharmacies are in the business of selling drugs, and IT is only a tiny
part of their operation. Second is that with millions and millions of
dollars
passing through a system regulated by HIPAA and other
laws,
the risk of upgrading is seen as higher than the risk of using old tech.
I can second this. I used to work for a Credit Union and we made extensive
use of IE7. It wasn't that we in the IT department liked IE7, it was just
that the cost of replacing the interface our tellers and MSR worked with was
too high to justify the change. Someone ages ago had decided that the best
way to build the GUI version of the teller interface was to use ActiveX in
Internet Explorer.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology