I don't work at places that aren't already coughing up for the right tools. Literally. I have declined jobs because of this and would leave my current employer if this happened.
Where as, on the other hand, if you can convince your boss to dish out $200 a month per user for something like Author-It, you get an extremely powerful system that does everything an authoring tool is supposed to. That's what I'm trying to do right now with my boss, convince him to switch (not from Sphinx, but from another cheaper software solution called Flare), and it's not an easy task.
Tools that cost 4 figures seem to sit "just about right" in the managerial mindset where I come from.
Some managerial cultures seem to really ( _really_ ) want to see cash laid out for anything before they will believe it holds any virtue.
To answer op: Nothing. Been trying for a long time, but no luck.