[loudmax]

Corporate servers can have strict rules about what software is allowed to be installed. It all depends on the corporation and what the servers are doing. Financial and health care companies are extremely risk averse. Even if the downside of installing something like murex is vanishingly tiny, the fact that there's any possible downside is enough to give them pause. Even if the new software is genuinely more productive, you may have to make the argument before a committee who's primary incentive is CYA above all else.

[alephu5]

8 years I was working at a huge manufacturing company in a technical role, although related to a physical product rather than software. I had to ask for permission to install python from corporate HQ, and was denied...

[RulerOf]

Indeed. The problem isn't that you can't install anything, it's that the goalposts for getting software installation approved are so high that it's faster to reinvent the wheel using the tools you have.