[jrockway]

I work at a company with 300,000 employees, and I had no trouble getting CPAN.

Perhaps it's just your company that's dysfunctional, not all big companies.

[jbjohns]

This would be a problem at every big company I've worked for that didn't already have something. Obviously it isn't a problem everywhere but knowing what I do about big companies I would say it's more likely than not.

And I wouldn't call it dysfunctional to not make it easy for people to be downloading all kinds of software for production systems.

[jrockway]

And I wouldn't call it dysfunctional to not make it easy for people to be downloading all kinds of software for production systems.

If only we felt the same way about letting people write their own software for production systems...