Funny, every large company I've worked at tried to emulate a bunch of small companies. Need X widget from the X widget department? You can't just send an email and say make me 500 widgets. No, an internal purchase order has to be created and "money" is transferred from X Widget developers to X Widget makers.
Hell, even the IT department has gone this route where your division has to license an exchange or IMAP server through the IT department.
Sounds depressingly familiar. My department gets most of if its server infrastructure under the radar from external companies since getting the IT department to set up a server for our needs is far too slow and expensive.
Hell, even the IT department has gone this route where your division has to license an exchange or IMAP server through the IT department.