Company has unapproved TC. Need argumens for compliance!

[AnthonyCian]

Hi, I been using/licensed Total Commander for 10+ years now, at home and at the company I work for. For some reason, the company IS team has created a software approved list. THAT is, if approved it will be accepted, if not, bye-bye software.

Unfortunately the IS Team has unapproved TC . I like to request TC users to submit their views (short and sweet) the advantage of using TC. I did submit to the IS Team the General List that is on this website of what TC can do, but to no avail. About 5 users use TC that I consider power users. I will ask them to contact the IS Team for support. Other users are just general users that use it mainly because it has the two panel display.

HERE IS THE KICKER:
The IS Team does have their own approved filemanger which is "TreeSize Pro". So lets compare TC with TreeSize Pro. Hope to hear from a lot of TC users on their comments, so I can present my case again. One thing for sure, there will be a learning curve using the new software, but most important it means giving up TC.

One final note: If someone had a similiar issue and created a good view point which worked, please share that experience. Or if there are companys out there that have comments and why they use it, will be helpful too.

THANKS,

AnthonyCian

[karlchen]

Hello, AnthonyCian.

I can understand your frustration
Have you checked the TreeSize Pro homepage? It is not a file-manager at all. So how can your IS team pretend it were?

TreeSize Professional is a powerful and flexible hard disk space manager for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP or Windows Server 2012/2008/2003 (32 or 64 Bit).

I.e. TreeSize Pro and Total Commander have different scopes of what they can do. So how could they be mutually exclusive in case your IS team wants to make sure they have to support exactly one file-manager company wide and not a bunch of them?

Cheers,
Karl

[AnthonyCian]

karlchen... Thanks for your reply/feedback!

I haven't had a chance to look at TreeSize Pro yet, but will check it out. Maybe try to use it at home so I can get a feel of it. And see what it can not do compared to TC.

Hope others will chime in too.

THANKS,
AC

[Sob]

Other users are just general users that use it mainly because it has the two panel display.

This alone is good enough reason. How can you efficiently manage files without two panels? If someone doesn't get it, they might as well use Windows file dialog as file manager, as you can copy/move/delete/etc files there too. ;)

Btw, is this just about allowing people to use something or about getting the program for the company? In latter case, it might be interesting that TC is not expensive (especially with unlimited upgrades) and has very fair licence (caring just about number of users, with unlimited devices).

[AnthonyCian]

To Sob:
Thanks for your input. Yes the two panel display really makes it alot easier and less confusing to do any file management of any kind.

About allowing people to use something vs getting a program for the company is hitting the nail on the head. When an application is first accepted, the IS Team will try to convince other people to use it since it is already approved. But expense is a good point since TreeSize Pro is only good for year then has to be renewed again$$$ So cost should play an important plus for TC.

To Ghisler: (hope you're monitoring this thread)
Checking TC pricing, I didn't see a site license, only up to a 200 user license. Have you considered a site license option?

AnthonyCIAN