I work for a large engineering firm, However, it's a nightmare in convincing management that upgrading to the latest version of ACad would be productive. I'm currently using ACAD 2002. Also, for the last 3-1/2 years, I've been in an uphill battle in convincing my office that we, as an civil engineering firm, should have Land Developement. But they believe, because of influence from engineer's using MicroStation, that Geopak suffices. But it's a nightmare converting DWG's to DGN's just to have someone run it in Geopak, and that convert it back to DWG's
I know that our office has the VIP subscription, so I know that ACAD 04 & 05 are sitting in the IT's office. But he always has some excuse. First it was with 04 that upgrading needed IE 6, which affected our e-mail system. But that problem has been resolved long time ago. He said 05 is the beta version? Again all excuses. Finally he'd say that Corporate will not allow upgrading yet. However, many of our other offices have upgraded and they say corporate has nothing to do with upgrading.
So how do I state my arguement to my boss and office manager without sounding like I'm wineing?