Has anyone found a way to make a change to their whole hospital network without the assistance of your computer department? The answer could be political, technological, or both. It should be so simple. Everyone knows that Internet Explorer is free on the web, and all you have to do is download it. And we have about 3000 Pentium machines system wide that are powerful enough to accomodate it. So the problem is: * I.S. refuses to make the upgrade to IE 4 or 5 because they are so embroiled in a new patient care system that they have no time left to breathe. * People around the hospital can't just download the new version themselves because we have an NT network which is tightly locked down. If one does succeed in downloading the software, then all kinds of stern messages come up and it's impossible to install the software. Most of the hospital is complaining. Even people who work in I.S. are having a fit. I am getting myself involved in this because I want to quit using a CD tower and give everyone access to web databases. And some key databases just won't work with IE 3, particularly Ebsco and Scientific American Medicine. Ovid works with IE 3, but I don't want to pay their inflated prices. Has anyone found a constructive way to instigate a change like this? Just badmouthing I.S. is not productive. They are already the scapegoats of the hospital. I'd like to find a way to make them and me look good. Thank you for any and all ideas! Beth Treaster Health Sciences Library Saint Francis Hospital 6161 S Yale Tulsa, OK 74136 [log in to unmask] Voice 918-494-1210 Fax 918-494-1893