Many Corporate Information Technology (IT) departments now "lock down"
the kinds of software that users can install on their own desktops. In
many cases, this applies not only to software installed via CD ROMs,
etc., but also software downloaded over the internet. I am planning to
use Macromedia Flash based technologies in the next generation of an
enterprise software package, and I would like to know if the corporate
lock down policies for major corporations (Fortune 2000) prohibit the
downloading or use of the Flash plugin.

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Clarification of Question by budvieira-ga on 04 Jul 2005 16:07 PDT

An acceptable answer to this question will include:
 - the information is from or cites a widely respected IT industry
source, such as an IT analyst (Gartner, Forrester, etc.) or a major
industry corporation (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, etc.)
 - the information is in the form of a factual analysis, rather than
industry opinion, for example, "survey indicates that 78% of Fortune
2000 companies do (or don't) allow Macromedia Flash in their
infrastructure"

I have been a avid user and developer of the Macromedia Flash based
application...yes applications and not just animations. Flash provides
the best client any server application would like to have. i.e., Flash
acts both like a thin client(it can be played on the browsers) and
have massive powers of thick client. And yes Flash is backed up by the
security making it as one of the best clients.
To answer you question whether the corp, industries will allow
downloading of the Flash Plugin...I would say...they already
do....Since the Plugin itself does not pose any threat to the
information inside. Just any other GOOD client, a Flash program would
require users consent before attempting to read any of the "host"
files....
so yes...flash definetely is being used widely and my prediction is
that it is soon gonna overwrite IE and Java Applications as a Client
of the Choice