[wvenable]

Is this argument even valid anymore? Chrome/Firefox/Safari push out updates constantly and these browsers are used to access an unimaginable number of systems. A corporation with 10 internal web applications is nothing compared to the millions of applications affected by every new browser update. Yet the sky doesn't fall -- everything continues to work as expected.

Now, corporate systems may be currently filled with a lot of IE6-only (cr)apps, but even Microsoft wants people to move on from that. If internal corporate intranet systems were forced to be standards compliant, there's no reason to assume they'd be any worse off than the million of public internet systems that exist on the other side of the firewall.

[thwarted]

The people who sell these internal app systems are kind of weird. I've been part of a number of rollouts where they say things like "Well, this internal system is going to have 1000 users across your entire company, so this is going to need to be a pretty beefy, expensive system of machines" and I'm like "Dude, you're talking to someone who deals with a website that gets millions of hits a day, your crap should be able to run off my laptop."